Stupid Quotes - Page 31

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid advice that could possibly be given. If we write simply about what we know we never grow. We don't develop any facility for languages, or an interest in others, or a desire to travel and explore and face experience head-on. We just coil tighter and tighter into our boring little selves. What one should write about is what interests one.

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.

For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death.

You must acquire the trick of ignoring those who do not like you. In my experience, those who do not like you fall into two categories: the stupid, and the envious. The stupid will like you in five years time, the envious never.

Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.

Venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn't mean large. It's also the only one that's Italian. Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you're a genius.

I drop styles on ears...the public bite 'em. Not many went to school, so the dummies wouldn't write 'em. They say, "Yo Keith! You're Kool, you usin' big words!" I went to college, I'm even more stupid, herb.

I do like to believe there is no stupid and or funny question because in fact if we don't ask than we don't learn.

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.

I'm fairly certain that YOLO is just Carpe Diem for stupid people.

If the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to "demand" its exercise from every sane person, no matter how erudite or ignorant, intelligent or stupid, he may happen to be. Kant in this respect almost alone among the philosophers was much bothered by the common opinion that philosophy is only for the few, precisely because of its moral implications.

My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions

Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes, hi-fi, etc. Don't say, don't write 'etc'. Make an effort to exhaust the subject, even if that seems grotesque, or pointless, or stupid. You still haven't looked at anything, you've merely picked out what you've long ago picked out.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.

Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something.