One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphood was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think a...
And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that questi...
It is a tedious cliché (and, unlike many clichés, it isn't even true) that science concerns itself with how questions, but only theology is equipped to answer why questions. What on Earth is a why question? Not every English sentence beginning with...
A stupid act entails doing the work twice over.
Stupidity won't kill you, but it can make you sweat.
To give jewels to a donkey is as stupid as giving a eunuch to a woman.
One stupid woman recognizes another one from a distance.
When the Spaniard sings he is either stupid or without money.
Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful...
This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the “over” and just think, then we could do, too. Only we’d be smarter doers because we’d be thinkers.
The willingness to be a champion for stupid ideas is the key to greater creativity, innovation, fulfillment, inspiration, motivation and success.
If someone thinks your ideas, the dreams bubbling up inside of you, are stupid, welcome to the Club.
It all starts with a tiny, stupid idea, then one thing leads to another, and suddenly, you find something amazing: yourself.
Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I feeling stupid.
Stupidity of proving yourself when not required is itself a proof of stupidity.
Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.
It's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living.
Jeez, you’re strong.” And you, Sam, are a conversational reject.
Everything falls apart when you do one stupid thing
Stupid people will mistake your confidence for arrogance.
The value of the student’s question is supreme. The best initial response to a question is not to answer it, per se, but to validate it, protect it, support it, and make a space for it. Like a blossom just emerging, a question is vulnerable and del...
