Quotes about Dumbness

Lyndon B. Johnson

Jerry's the only man I ever knew who's so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

Referring to Gerald R. Ford: The quotation is usually cleaned up by substitutiong the word "walk" for "fart". Ford was actually a very bright man, but had an unassuming style that was vulnerable to negative characterization.

Harry Hopkins

The public is too damned dumb to understand.

When asked to explain why the U. S. had supplied $11 billion to the Soviet Union in lend-lease aid during World War II:

George S. Patton

For years, before coming here, I had read of the quiet dignity of the Arab. He is quiet, but is the lity, in my opinion, is pure dumbness. His aquiline face, which in the pure bred ones is quite impressive, is really the face of a dumb man.

Patton was leading troops in north Africa in world war two. They came into much contact with the Arabs and Patton thought that his officers should know more about them. He wrote this memo.

Joseph Joubert

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

Franz Kafka

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

Peter Gabriel

The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb

Keanu Reeves

I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.

Kelly Clarkson

I may not be Einstein but I know dumb plus dumb equals you.

Danica McKellar

Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

Sean Combs

You must wanna be in the Guinness Book of World Records as the dumbest.

Ron White

There's not a pill you can take; there's not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.

Honore de Balzac

Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

Hunter S. Thompson

We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.