Think of how stupid the average person is,
and realize half of them are stupider than that.
- George Carlin
If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid;
if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.
- Tony Rothman
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Valery
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein
Stupid is as stupid does.
- the movie Forrest Gump (1994)
Love interrupts, if you like,
the consequences of your actions,
which in my case is very good news indeed,
because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.
- Bono
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
- the movie National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
People are stupid;
given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything.
Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie
because they want to believe it's true,
or because they are afraid it might be true.
- Terry Goodkind
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stupidity is also a gift of God,
but one mustn't misuse it.
- Pope John Paul II
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
The difference between stupidity and genius
is that genius has its limits.
- Albert Einstein
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can,
only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Genius may have its limitations,
but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard
Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
Two things are infinite:
the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
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Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
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Fully experience THIS moment -
breathe in, breathe out - nothing more.
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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
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To know the whole world is nothing
when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
- Osho
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid
as getting to know how enormously much
he is capable of doing and becoming.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Know that where there is love, nothing is missing.
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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein
Begin to act from your dominion.
Declare the truth by telling yourself
that there is nothing to be afraid of,
that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
- Ernest Holmes
Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous,
there's really nothing to lose.
- Jewel
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
Nothing big ever came from being small.
- William J. Clinton
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali
I'd rather have thirty minutes of wonderful
than a lifetime of nothing special.
- the movie Steel Magnolias
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus
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