Stephen Fry Quotes

Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things work but only the kind of quick, easy outer impression that they get.

You didn't understand or care to know, you get your education from your lovers.

There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal with this condition, feels the less effort it requires, the better. Whereas learning about the world is labor, and a great all-consuming one at that. Most people develop quite antithetical talents, in fact - to look without seeing, to listen without hearing, mainly to preserve onself within oneself.

You know people. Most of them don’t hear anything. Those who hear - don’t listen. A few who listen - don’t understand. And those who could understand… they don’t care.

How few care about such things.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t want to do anything. Just let them talk.

It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.

People don't care about questionnaires.

Knowledge is Power. Ignorance is Bliss. But curiosity—even if it had killed the cat—is king.

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.

Those people have seen 'something'. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know.

I don't care about convincing the people who think I'm naive or an idiot.

People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.

When you stop caring about something, then other people have to decide whether or not they genuinely care about you, or not.

In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.

I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.

Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

People are whupped. I'm whupped. My wife is whupped. Unless it's your job to be curious, who really has the time to sit and ask questions and explore issues?

People ask without wanting to know.

Most people sleep themselves stupid.

How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.