53 Stupidest Quotes Ever

Ever had a moment when you heard someone say something so utterly bizarre or nonsensical that you couldn’t help but laugh or shake your head in disbelief? You're not alone. Throughout history, public figures, celebrities, and even regular folks have all contributed their fair share of head-scratchers. Whether it's a classic misstatement, an outlandish claim, or a humorous slip of the tongue, these quotes often become the stuff of legend and endless amusement. Dive in as we explore a curated collection of the top 53 stupidest quotes ever, guaranteed to leave you entertained and maybe even a bit bewildered.

1. “The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” - Bertrand Russell

2. “Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.” - C.S. Lewis

3. “Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty."Gideon Wyeth:"Why?"Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.” - Orson Scott Card

4. “I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.” - Hillary Rodham Clinton

5. “The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A Genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.” - Joe Theismann

6. “Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.” - Patricia Briggs

7. “A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.” - Patricia Briggs

8. “Listen to me, goblin. You're stupid, let's accept that and move on.” - Eoin Colfer

9. “If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)” - Mercedes Lackey

10. “Yes, he is a man, so genetically he's engineered to be dense about many things, but he's not stupid. ” - Katie MacAlister

11. “So you'll teach me?" Val asked.Ravus nodded agin. "I will make you as terrible as you desire.""I don't want to be - ," she started, but he held up his hand."I know you're very brave," he said."Or stupid.""And stupid. Brave and Stupid." Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. "But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how.” - Holly Black

12. “Either they're still naive, or stupid.” - Toba Beta

13. “I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.” - Arnold Schwarzenegger

14. “I'm so smart now. Everyone's always like 'take your top off'. Sorry, NO! They always want to get that money shot. I'm not stupid.” - Paris Hilton

15. “(Parody that is often falsely believed to be a true quote of Mariah Carey's) Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff. ” - Mad Magazine Editors

16. “To generalize is to be an idiot.” - William Blake

17. “Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is ignorant of one thing or another. They know that, to another intelligent person, they will not appear stupid in asking for an explanation of what they do not know, and so their ignorance on any particular issue does not become an embarrassment.” - Lynsay Sands

18. “Have you noticed we can breathe in here too?Gosh, I wouldn't have picked up on that.” - Dan Abnett

19. “The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.” - Lynne Truss

20. “Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.” - Jacqueline Carey

21. “And now I wish I hadn’t been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!”“No, no!” said Alverstoke soothingly. “Nobody could be as stupid as Endymion!” - Georgette Heyer

22. “Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them.” - Sierra

23. “I think I have many spenglerian moods about the country, and that some day people will look back and think 'this was a really goofy, unadmirable stupid time.” - Dick Cavett

24. “When you curse anything bad,you just give birth to the new one.” - Toba Beta

25. “Irony is wasted on the stupid” - Oscar Wilde

26. “We should have known much more than our ancestors.But if we learn less, we're much more stupid than them.” - Toba Beta

27. “I like 'em big. And stupid. Don't tell my husband.” - Meg Cabot

28. “If we are not stupid then we are bound to become one.” - Santosh Kalwar

29. “But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.” - Jeff Lindsay

30. “Many people are smarter than their stupid bosses.” - Toba Beta

31. “You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.” - Arthur Phillips

32. “Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.” - Sarah Dessen

33. “There is no real bravery in getting paid to save someone's life. However, there is a large amount of bravery in a nurse break dancing at the hospital's Christmas party.” - Shannon Alder

34. “If you're angry at stupid people, you're tempted to join them.” - Toba Beta

35. “If you need help bark like a dog." - Gendry. "That's stupid. If I need help I'll shout help." - Arya” - George R.R. Martin

36. “In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.” - Rick Mercer

37. “drenching his shirt with saltwater” - Stephenie Meyer

38. “God doesn't like lesbians," Grandma Huberman hised, throwing the magazine in the trash.Jennifer knew what lesbian meant, and she knew she probably was one. But she couldn't understand why God would hold that against her or against Monica Mathers, who'd never started a war or killed anybody, and whose deadeye three-pointers were straight-up amazing. After all, hadn't God made both of them? But people were like that, she'd noticed. They'd invoke Godly privilege at the weirdest of times and for the most stupid reasons.” - Libba Bray

39. “It’s fairly standard. Also, I’m fourteen. Also, yourbeard’s stupid.”“Isn’t this fun?” Skulduggery said brightly. “The three of usgetting along so well.” - Derek Landy

40. “Bryan helped me up.  "How can you be so good one minute then clumsy the next?"I shrugged.  "I've never been very athletic.  Not unless you count fencing.""You made fences?” - John Corwin

41. “Most people are boring and stupid.” - Oscar Wilde

42. “When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic,” I said. “When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.” - Jim Butcher

43. “If she had learnt any lesson today it was that men were stupid, helpless creatures made needlessly cruel by their terror of showing their feelings.” - Jayne Bauling

44. “Stupid kissing. Stupid roaming hands. Stupid boys.” - Jessica Park

45. “You can't fix stupid” - R. Alan Woods

46. “Without a response, I just stand there like an idiot. Like she just slapped my brain out of my skull and I can’t think.” - Rebecca A. Rogers

47. “The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.” - Chuck Palahniuk

48. “The groove is so mysterious. We're born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away.I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it and help us remember when we forget that any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all.” - Lynda Barry

49. “Los celos hacen que las personas hagan y digan cosas estúpidas” - Richelle Mead

50. “There had never been a shortage of fools in the world” - Stephen King

51. “It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.” - Edith Wharton

52. “I belong to a stupid nation that kill and murder their own people for language and religion, then they call it foreigners interference.” - M.F. Moonzajer

53. “Sometimes both your mind and thoughts are paying the cost of your stupid heart.” - M.F. Moonzajer