#stupidity

What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#almost #because #been #comedies #comedy

Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humour #intelligence #stupidity #funny

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#art #artist #criticism #critics #genius

In politics stupidity is not a handicap. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#politics #stupidity

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. ↗

— Johann G. Seume

#idleness #mind #stupidity

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#gain #general #idea #intelligent #mixed

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity. ↗

— Chris Rock

#excuse #get #high #i #i wish

You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him." "So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#amusing #philosophy #tamora-pierce #stupidity

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#fencing #stupid #stupidity #anger

Beauty fades, dumb is forever. ↗

— Judy Sheindlin

#intelligence #stupidity #beauty