There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves.
Mike Krzyzewski

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

The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.
Thomas Szasz

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

I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.
Jackie Chan

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

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
Mencius

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

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

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

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
Honore de Balzac

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

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

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

The thing that bums me out about The Real World is I don't want to believe that teenagers are that stupid.
Kathy Griffin

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

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.
Redd Foxx

Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as washing yourself. It's something you're supposed to do. Now, you can't go around bragging, expecting to get props because you voted. That's stupid.
Chuck D.

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

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
Charles Kettering