#stupidity

Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit. ↗

— Jim C. Hines

#stupidity #freedom

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#humor #intelligence #people #stupidity #humor

That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy." Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us ... all those things." But---buried alive! That's like in that horror movie. Y'know -- the one with all the horror." I think I saw that one. With all the words going up on the screen at the end?" Yeah, that was it. Tell you the truth, those words kinda ruined it for me. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#horror-movies #humor #killers #stupidity #humor

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

— Jack Black

#humor #stupidity #yolo #humor

Hiram!' Shelton ran to Hi's side. 'Aren't you you bleeding? I thought she shot you!' 'Red wine. When I saw it running everywhere, I played dead.' He winced as Shelton poked his belly. 'But I'm not leaping off any more shelves. That was pretty stupid. ↗

— Kathy Reichs

#stupidity #virals #humor

Not stupid. Overly trusting, maybe, but that reflects on his lack of trustworthiness, not on your intelligence. ↗

— Tammara Webber

#intelligence #jackie #love #lucas #stupidity

For every criminal mastermind, there were ten cretins: the cruel algebra of intelligence applied across the masses. -- Telegraph Hill ↗

— John Nardizzi

#san-francisco #stupidity #intelligence

You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser? ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#stupidity #life

life is tough but its tougher when you're stupid ↗

— John Wayne

#knowledge #stupidity #wisdom #life

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. ↗

— Adam Smith

#stupidity #work #life