Not Stupid Quotes

This is just my way of pointing out that we people who leap without looking are not stupid. We know damn well we might be headed for a fall. But we also know that, sometimes, it's the only way out.
- Jodi Picoult

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

I'm not stupid, I know your heart's involved in this and I've never, not once in all the time you've known me, given you the idea that I won't handle it with care.
- Kristen Ashley

I'm not stupid. I know exactly what's going on, and I'm not fighting it. If I have to go through this, I will glean from it any small benefit I can receive. I will not fight this. Bring it on. Bring on the cure. Bring on the fucking happy. I'm committed.
- Emilie Autumn

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

Right, and the definition of basic stupidity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. I'm not stupid. (Xypher)
I didn't say to keep doing it. Move forward with purpose. Examine what went wrong and correct that one mistake. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

No one can make you feel low unless you allow them to. You're not stupid, Alix. And you're very beautiful. I just thought you should know that. (Devyn)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

It doesn't bother me that people are stupid. I'm not stupid.
- Ahmed Best

I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.
- Terry Bradshaw

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.
- Max Brooks

You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.
- Terry Brooks

Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold

just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean I'm not stupid. Wait... Let me start over..
- Cary Caffrey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Dostoyevsky

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'm young but I'm not stupid.
- Abby Elliott

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

I believed him. I was not stupid. I was his wife.
- Jonathan Safran Foer

People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.
- Carl Sagan

I tried to tell you. You said you didn't care, remember?"
A muscle ticked below his eye. "You should have told me anyway."
"While you had barbells within your reach? Please. I'm Disease, not Stupid.
- Gena Showalter

There is no need," Capricorn finally began, raising his voice, "for me to explain to most of you why the three prisoners you see there are to be punished. For the rest, it is enough for me to say it is for treachery, loose talk, and stupidity. One may argue, of course, over whether or not stupidity is a crime deserving of death. I think it is, for it can have exactly the same consequences as treachery.
- Cornelia Funke

It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?
- George R R Martin

You think this necklace is a tailsman?"
"Yep, I'm not stupid Leif. I hang with Death, ya know.
- Abbi Glines

I'm dumb," the first one said, their footsteps receding, "not stupid".
- T M Goeglein

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
- Al Green

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

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

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

I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.
- Utada Hikaru

I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
- Paris Hilton

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

You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.
- Janet Jackson

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

People are not stupid.
- Charles Kennedy

This whole strike has turned into a way to fuck with people, Lissa," he snapped. "It was one thing when you were just boycotting sex, but now...Look at you. You're using sex to get what you want-playing with my feelings for your own benefit. That's why you came over, right? I'm not stupid. You're the one who's cruel, Lissa. Not me.
- Kody Keplinger

An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.
- Markus Zusak

Yeah, well, I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid, hopefully. And I think we're all a bit crazy if we do anything that's deviant. I've studied a great deal on deviance and aberrant behavior. Most of the interesting people I've ever met have been deviant in one form or another.
- Anton Lavey

So, ignorant we are. But we're not stupid. Indeed...remaining ignorant about politics and our government is a perfectly rational response to the government we have. The question isn't what we know. The question is what we're capable of knowing, and doing, if we have the right incentives, and the right opportunity.
- Lawrence Lessig

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

...Ethan, but I'm certainly not the type of woman to just go home with two men whether I know them or not. It would be highly inappropriate, not to mention stupid."
"And you're not stupid."
"Not as far as I can tell"..
- M K Mcclintock

I wished my mother was here tonight, which is stupid, because it's an impossible wish." He shrugs and turns to me, drowning the smile that cracks me every time.
"It's not stupid to want to see her again."
"It wasn't so much that I wanted to see her again," he says, looking at me with the depth of more than seventeen years in his eyes. "I wanted her to see you.
- Katja Millay

What are you doing?"
"Playing house" said Felix
"Do you want to come and pour the tea?"
Ella's not stupid. "You are not.
- Sally Nicholls

George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil.
- Patton Oswalt

We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction
- Orhan Pamuk

I may be fat and ugly, but I'm not stupid. If anyone had ever gotten past my looks, they might've noticed I have a brain.
- Julie Anne Peters

Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots.
- Jerry Pournelle

The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled "genetically engineered," the public will shy away and won't take them.
- Jeremy Rifkin

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.
- J D Robb

Now if you tell me there were six other naked women and three attendants hanging around who saw you shove her into the locker,i'll have to kill you."
"There was nobody else there.We're not idiots."she grimaced. "I know you think we are, but we're not stupid enough to have done it in front of witnesses. Actually, we timed it that way so she'd be stuck in there longer." she smiled weakly. "it seemed like a good idea at the time.
- Nora Roberts

You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.
- Pete Rose

I may be plucky, but I am not stupid.
- Pierre Salinger

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

Now, Hazel was not stupid. She knew that just because you see a piece of cake and a sign that says EAT ME doesn't mean you should actually do it. And just because two giant ravens point you in the direction of a path doesn't mean you should take it. But it was the only path she had.
- Anne Ursu

Shit is fucked up when it comes to appearances and women. We're expected to be hot - but if we are, we're vain and stupid. And if we're not hot we're useless. Kind of hard to get around. But we're not stupid. We know that we're doing damage to ourselves - not only to our bodies but also to our mental well-being. And it's not worth it.
- Jessica Valenti

I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.
- Bobby Vinton

The public are not stupid.
- Pete Waterman

Will this be in the examination, Mr Hecker? was the limit of my students' interest in any given subject. If it was going to be in the test they took notes, if it was not going to be in the test they did not take notes. Their silent, depthless stares were unnerving. I told myself that they were not stupid - for how could the final attainment of thousands of years of human progress be stupid?
- Tod Wodicka

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