Mike McCurry Quotes

What makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

We all do stupid things.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

One phrase I would dearly like to consign to the can is 'Out of the Box.' The thinking that told us we should invade Iraq and that house prices never decline may have been out of the box, but it put us into the ditch. We have been badly misled by people who persuaded us that they understood things we didn't.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.

When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a source that would never run out.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

A foolish man may be known by six things: Anger without cause, speech without profit, change without progress, inquiry without object, putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.

Self delusion is not a good basis for making important policy.

Intelligence divorced from judgment produces nothing but foolishness.

Pragmatism is not always a good thing. Experience is not always a good thing.

If you overthink things, you end up doing things without the right reasons in mind.

The foole askes much, but hee is more foole that grants it.

Stupid people are dangerous.

Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.