Quotes about Dumb

When smart people do dumb things it's usually due to one of two things. The two things are greed and fear. They want something they're not supposed to have or they've done something they weren't supposed to do. In either case they've usually fasten on to a set of beliefs that are supportive of their state of mind but at odds with reality. It has become more important for them to believe that to know.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

Adam noticed Gyp's mental conflict, and though his anger had made him less tender than usual to his mother, it did not prevent him from caring as much as usual for his dog. We are apt to be kinder to the brutes that love us than to the women that love us. Is it because the brutes are dumb? "Go, Gyp; go, lad!" Adam said, in a tone of encouraging command; and Gyp, apparently satisfied that duty and pleasure were one, followed Lisbeth into the house-place.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Sometimes I wish I'd been an Englishman; American life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy.

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

There is so much that is deaf and dumb in man, and so much that is paralyzed, so much that is shrunken, that nothing short of a miraculous touch of re-creation can make them at death perfect beings.