Not Stupid Quotes - Page 4

• You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.

  J. K. Rowling

  Stupid, Humor, Thinking

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• But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.

  Truman Capote

  Stupid, Glasses, Doe

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.48, Vintage

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• Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stupid, Men, Gentleman

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• 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

  Stupid, Ignorance, Intelligent

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• Yes, he is a man, so genetically he's engineered to be dense about many things, but he's not stupid.

  Katie MacAlister

  Stupid, Men, Dense

  Katie Macalister (2005). “Hard Day's Knight”, p.106, Penguin

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• I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

  Orson Scott Card

  Stupid, Beans, Prove

  Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.113, Macmillan

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• People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

  Craig Ferguson

  Life, Children, Stupid

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• I'm just full of surprises." Watching her, he waved the wrapped bar from side to side. "You can have the candy if you sit on my lap." That sounds like something perverted old men say to young, stupid girls." I'm not old, and you're not stupid." He sat, patted his knee. "It's Belgian chocolate." Just because I'm sitting on your lap and eating your candy doesn't mean you can cop a feel," she said as she folded into his lap.

  Nora Roberts

  Girl, Stupid, Mean

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• My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them.

  J. K. Rowling

  Stupid, Parent, Muggles

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• As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Mother, Stupid, Mind

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• I'm not stupid, stupid. Leave this whole thing in my extremely capable and well-manicured hands. I'll call you later with an update. Bye!

  P. C. Cast

  Stupid, Hands, Bye

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Burned: A House of Night Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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• 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. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Wise, Stupid, Believe

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2018). “White Nights and Other Stories”, p.93, Youcanprint

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• You and Jace – you’re not quite normal, are you? I mean, not normal Shadowhunters. There’s something special about you both. Like the Seelie Queen said. You were experiments.” He smiled at her startled look. “I’m not stupid. I can put these things together. You with your rune powers, and Jace, well…no one could be that annoying without some kind of supernatural assistance.

  Cassandra Clare

  Queens, Stupid, Mean

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1220, Simon and Schuster

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• Da, hes waiting for me to tell the two of you our news first, then he'll join me." He cocked a dark brow at her. "And why would he not come to your mother and me first and ask permission to handfast with you, as is the honorable thing to do?" She cocked her own brow, mirroring his expression perfectly. "Because he's not stupid. Anyone with any sense would be scared of you two. But even scared to death, he wanted to come with me. I wouldn't let him. I knew I needed to talk to you alone first.

  P. C. Cast

  Mother, Stupid, Dark

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• We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks.

  J. K. Rowling

  Stupid, Choices, Brave

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• I’d like to. Problem is, I’m not stupid.” “You act stupid.” “Right. Thanks for that. For your information, there’s a difference between acting stupid and being stupid.” “It’s a fine line, but someone has to draw it.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Stupid, Differences, Acting

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.1159, Simon and Schuster

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• I believed him. I was not stupid. I was his wife.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Stupid, Wife

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.185, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That's a stupid question,' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.' 'No, it's a philosophical question,' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid.

  Rick Yancey

  Stupid, Philosophical, Useless

  Rick Yancey (2009). “The Monstrumologist”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stupid, People, Foolishness

  Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

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• Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano.

  Margot Asquith

  Stupid, Math, Piano

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• If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?

  Epictetus

  Lying, Stupid, Men

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.70

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• I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Stupid, Thinking, Owl

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. February 18, 2004.

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• Play with your kids. Limit their TV time. Get outdoors and chase them around. Wrestle with them. Walk the dog. Go bike riding. The reality is that your kids are not stupid, and they know when they are overweight Start walking the dog after dinner instead of watching TV. You don't want them going on the Web to find ways to lose weight. That's when you'll find them eating tissue paper because they read that a supermodel did it.

  Jillian Michaels

  Dog, Stupid, Kids

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Stupid, Ignorance, Feelings

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• Many of the religious apologists out there are not stupid people, they are often brilliant. People working in the field of theology and philosophy smart people everywhere. What they are those religious apologists are smart poeple who can build these amazingly intricate rationalizations for whatever weird practice they favor. Whether it's ritual cannibalism, or praying to spirits, or treating women as chattel. And they always building this on terrible shaky foundation of false premises.

  PZ Myers

  Religious, Philosophy, Smart

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