Stupid Quotes – Some with Stupidity that Actually Mirrors Real Life

For most of us we’ve all said something stupid. Maybe something that didn’t make sense. But we’re safe. It hasn’t become one of the stupid quotes people read about. Maybe that something was a spur of the moment thought. Usually whatever we said passes and is long forgotten. But not so for famous and near famous people.

Those stupid quotes we find all over the web are reminders that there is less and less privacy in our lives.

Stupid definition

stupid adjective
1a : slow of mind : obtuse
  b : given to unintelligent decisions or acts
      : acting in an unintelligent or careless manner
   c : lacking intelligence or reason
stupid noun
  a stupid person

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Published on Youtube on Apr 8, 2017

What is STUPIDITY? What does STUPIDITY mean? STUPIDITY meaning, STUPIDITY pronunciation, STUPIDITY definition, STUPIDITY explanation. How to pronounce STUPIDITY?

Stupidity is a lack of intelligence, understanding, reason, wit or sense. Stupidity may be innate, assumed or reactive – a defense against grief or trauma.

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We’ve collected some of those stupid quotes for you to take a look at. How many make little or no sense? Do you see any that ring true? What about stupid quotes that really aren’t so stupid after all? Surely some of the stupidity mentioned in the quotes is not so stupid at all.

Below you will find our collection of stupid quotes, stupid sayings, and maybe a seemingly stupid proverb.
 

133+ Stupid Quotes some of which may Make Sense

“The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.”
― Marjane Satrapi

“Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It’s made it easier for me to make a living.”
― Albert Gubay

“Stupid people will mistake your confidence for arrogance.”
― Habeeb Akande

“Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.”
― John Stuart Mill

“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.”
― John Gotti

“Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. ”
― Mark Twain

“I just hate stupid people. They should have to wear signs that say ‘I’m Stupid.’ That way you wouldn’t rely on them, and you wouldn’t ask them for nothing.”
― Bill Engvall

“The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice.”
― Proverb

“If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?”
― Scott Adams

“An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one. ”
― Adam Smith

“It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.”
― Jerome K. Jerome

“Only stupid people don’t change their minds.”
― Boutros Boutros-Ghali

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
― Albert Einstein

Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that’s who you are. Don’t try to be someone that society wants you to be; that’s stupid. So be yourself.
― Christina Grimmie

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
― Victor Hugo

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
― Benjamin Franklin

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’m grateful for every stupid mistake and dumb joke I tried to make.
― Bo Burnham

Life is tough, but it’s tougher if you’re stupid.
― Unknown

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
― Gustave Flaubert

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

It’s all part of my journey – I’ve done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
― Ozzy Osbourne

It’s hard for me to fake smile. I personally think I look stupid fake smiling.
― Chuck Liddell

I’m an aggressive fighter, but I’m smart. I’m not going to play stupid.
― Rafael dos Anjos

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
― Chanakya

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid.
― Norm MacDonald

I would rather be stupid than pretend to be intelligent.
― Mahesh Bhatt

 

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

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
― Bertrand Russell

There’s not a pill you can take; there’s not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.
― Ron White

Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.
― Bradley Whitford

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.
― Christopher Hitchens

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
― Maxim Gorky

I’m crazy, but I’m not stupid.
― Jackie Chan

Any girl can look glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
― Hedy Lamarr

I look stupid without a mustache.
― Erik Griffin

When you’re young, you’re stupid. You do silly things.
― Ozzy Osbourne

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
― John Stuart Mill

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
― Jane Austen

I’m the one guy who says don’t force the stupid people to be quiet. I want to know who the morons are.
― Mark Cuban

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
― Will Rogers

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.
― Marjane Satrapi

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
― Simone de Beauvoir

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.
― Marilyn Monroe

I hate stupid people. They should have to wear signs that just say, ‘I’m stupid.’
― Bill Engvall

All that hullabaloo about somebody’s net worth is just stupid, and it’s made my life a lot more complex and difficult.
― Sam Walton

I think even the most beautiful person looks stupid on Skype.
― Freida Pinto

Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
― Dave Barry

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
― Du Mu

It’s a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.
― David Harris

 

I never knew how ugly and how stupid I was until, you know, we had Twitter.
― Kellyanne Conway

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
― Marilyn Monroe

I have a hard time arguing with stupid people.
― Carl Hart

Everyone has the right to be stupid on occasion, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege.
― Leon Trotsky

Love at first sight is probably for stupid people, but maybe I’m just cynical.
― Greg Davies

Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid.
― Mark McGwire

I feel like I’ve lost so many amazing traits because I’ve listened to stupid people, ignorant people who are bullies.
― Kylie Jenner

Don’t underestimate your kids. Don’t be condescending, because they’re children but they’re not stupid.
― Steve Carell

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?
― Lou Holtz

 

It’s absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we’ve got rockets, we’ve got saran wrap – fix it!
― Lewis Black

Being stupid and compassionate are not conflicts. Being mean and being funny and having something to say are not a conflict.
― El-P

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
― Maxim Gorky

I feel like the world is getting dumber. I don’t necessarily think people are stupid, but I think we’re getting dumber.
― J.I.D

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
― Redd Foxx

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
― Bertrand Russell

When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don’t really feel angry at them.
― Chris Isaak

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
― Leo Tolstoy

I’m stupid, I’m ugly, I’m dumb, I smell. Did I mention I’m stupid?
― Eminem

Stupid people are ruining America.
― Herman Cain

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
― Voltaire

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.
― Friedrich Nietzsche

When you are young, you do a lot of stupid things.
― Pele

Love at first sight is probably for stupid people, but maybe I’m just cynical.
― Greg Davies

The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.
― Anna Kournikova

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
― George Bernard Shaw

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
― Dean Koontz

…You can be sincere and still be stupid.
― Charles Kettering

I have long known that it is part of God’s plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.
― Bill Bryson

“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.”
― Confucius

It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.
― Ray Bradbury

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.
― Reed Hastings

Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that’s what I want.
― Penn Jillette

I would be stupid to say no to Bollywood. It is the biggest film industry in our country.
― Prabhas
 

Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.
― Colin Powell

I don’t like being lied to, so I only lie about the stupid things. White lies, basically.
― Enrique Iglesias

Hollywood is great. I also think it’s stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.
― David

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.
― Bill Gates

You get to a point where you get tired of being stupid and selfish and not being honest with yourself.
― Alex Rodriguez

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
― Stokely Carmichael

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
― Eartha Kitt

I’m on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.
― Bam Margera

As a girl, I am this stupid, emotional, very loyal, sort of believe-in-values-and-principals sort of girl.
― Priyanka Chopra
 

And maybe I’m a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I’ve done.
― Herb Brooks

Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn’t work. You can be politically incorrect if you’re smart.
― Mel Brooks

Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.
― David Alan Grier

My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.
― Gina Gershon

For years, I have been trying to persuade people that George W. Bush, although no Einstein, is not stupid.
― Molly Ivins

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
― Thomas Szasz

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
― George Berkeley

Sometimes you gotta get stupid with yourself, and you gotta enjoy your own company some time.
― Thundercat

Hiding my age won’t make me younger. It would be stupid to not accept the fact.
― Barun Sobti

I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.
― Robbie Coltrane

I’m pretty sarcastic, and sometimes that doesn’t come across on the Internet. It seems like I’m being rude or stupid.
― Sky Ferreira

When I left NSA, it was with an understanding that you can never underestimate the power of large numbers of stupid people.
― William Binney

Only stupid people are changed by success.
― Jurgen Klopp

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
― David Hume

It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media.
― Shah Rukh Khan

I never professed to be perfect. I do something wrong or something stupid, I laugh at myself.
― John Madden

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
― Samuel Goldwyn

― I don’t want to feel like I’ve matured. That’s a stupid word that I never want to use.
Marilyn Manson

Words such as truth, art, veracity, or anything are stupid in themselves.
― Marcel Duchamp

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
― Joseph Addison

Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
― Gore Vidal

Poor people are too stupid to know they’re just chess pieces in a game.
― Charles Barkley

You got to be just stupid to not be focused on alternative energy.
― Lewis Black

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
― John Dewey

Love is being stupid together.
― Paul Valery

I’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.
― Bruno Mars

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
― Ezra Pound

In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
― Rafael Nadal

No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.
― Rafael Nadal

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
― Robert Anton Wilson

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
― Gilbert K. Chesterton

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
― Alexandre Dumas

I mean, sometimes I hate interviews because I always feel like I sound stupid.
― Aubrey Plaza

Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.
― Lemmy

If you’re poor and you do something stupid, you’re nuts. If you’re rich and do something stupid, you’re eccentric.
― Bobby Heenan

Make yourself look really stupid so you don’t feel bad doing something a little stupid.
― Mark Hoppus

I guess if you’re stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.
― James Blunt

No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.
― Shakti Gawain

Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.
― George Herbert Mead

First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.
― Milos Forman

Comedy is so subjective, you know what I mean? To sit there and technically pick it apart is so stupid.
― Nick Swardson