1. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
2. It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
3. I’m not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.
4. I’m not going to normally get hired to play those emotional things, and I’m capable of it. I was raised by a single mother in Iowa – I’m just trapped in a big, dumb body.
5. I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn’t picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn’t a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.
6. In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
7. I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
8. I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
9. When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
10. When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
11. Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
12. I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.
13. If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
14. Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
15. When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
16. I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.
17. Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.
18. A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.
19. If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.
20. It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.
21. Only very intelligent people don’t wish they were in politics, and I’m dumb enough to want to be in there.
22. I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
23. Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don’t have to be anything else.
24. If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‘Oh, I forgot that bit,’ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!
25. I’m a meathead. I can’t help it, man. You’ve got smart people and you’ve got dumb people.
26. Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
27. I’m a meathead, man. You’ve got smart people, and you’ve got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.
28. Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.
29. Corporate America is not dumb; it’s worked hard to sew up both political parties in its nefarious schemes to place their short-term economic interests before the health and well-being of the average American.
30. To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
31. One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork.
32. When the first big paycheque with ‘Dumb And Dumber’ hit, I went: ‘Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?’ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
33. We’ve got to dumb America up again.
34. Why, over her political career has Wall Street been a major – the major campaign contributor to Hillary Clinton? You know, maybe they’re dumb and they don’t know what they’re going to get, but I don’t think so.
35. My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.
36. Democrats are dumb and Republicans are stupid, but the difference between dumb and stupid is dumb isn’t funny. Dumb is when you say something and the whole room goes, ‘What did he say?’
37. I’m a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It’s a pretty dumb animal, mind you.
38. I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
39. Obscenities… I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can’t think of what they want to say and they’re frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren’t very smart – want to be just one of the boys.
40. Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.
41. Because we are communal creatures, if you’re with people who think you’re smart, you’re smart, and if they think you’re dumb, you’re dumb.
42. Today, I give my daughter what I really didn’t have as a kid: all the silly, dumb, extravagant, frilly, nonfunctional toys I can force on her. She probably wants an encyclopedia.
43. I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.
44. I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.
45. I’ve done a lot of dumb things in my life.
46. I’m not dumb by a long shot. I’m just bad.
47. I know it sounds so dumb, but when you’ve had pink hair for 12 years and take that away, you’re looked at in a different light.
48. In the United States, we’ve put our elections on Tuesday. That’s dumb. In modern life, it makes absolutely no sense.
49. I don’t believe in elitism. I don’t think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
50. People say you have to know when to retire, which is a dumb thing to say. If you want to go out on top, yeah, it becomes important when you quit. But I wasn’t afraid of that. And I wasn’t worried about getting fired. I knew the risk. To me, it’s not an ego thing. I enjoy coaching. I enjoy helping people achieve something.
51. It’s well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they’re in middle school.
52. What I say is, ‘If you’re so rich, how come you’re so dumb?’
53. I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
54. Most people I work with are older than me and the main thing I’ve learnt is that everyone is a dumb as an 18-year-old.
55. For me, I just stuck to school. I thought you can’t be bullied and dumb, so books and I will be friends.
56. I’ve certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I’m one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.
57. I love a blouse that’s dumb. I love to use the word ‘dumb.’ It’s not knowing, and the word ‘blouse’ is so out of fashion that I love it – ‘a blouse that’s dumb.’
58. It takes a smart man to play dumb.
59. I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn’t run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.
60. I’m grateful for every stupid mistake and dumb joke I tried to make.
