Sharon Kay Penman Quotes

It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.

I had always been impressed by the fact that there are surprisingly many individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and yet are not stupid, and an equal number who obviously do use their minds but in an amazingly stupid way.

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

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

I'm as thick as a plank.

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

If he were any dumber, he'd be a tree.

Many of us are quite stupid.

I am attracted to dumb people.

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.

If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off.

I have been Foolish and Deluded, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.

Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

No, I don't think you understand just how stupid goblins are. Let me give you an example. One of the B'wa Kell generals, and this is their top fairy, was caught caught trying to pass off forged credit slips by signing his own name.

We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does not tally with what we already believe or would like to believe.

Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir.

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?’

The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.

Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think