Stephen Hillenburg Quotes

Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

I have two brothers, and we used to always laugh at oblivious people. People who are so cocky and full of themselves that they just don't realize how stupid they are. And those kind of idiots really make me laugh.

Sam Duvet is like me but turned up: more vain and dumber.

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

Most politicians are vain. Many of them are stupid.

I hate elitists. I hate conceited people. I hate pompous people.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.