Top 209 Idiotic Quotes & Sayings

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.

In this business, you have to have what they call an idiotic determination to succeed.

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.

I have multiple ideas per day, all the time. The vast majority of these are completely idiotic. Usually, I just sit on the idea for several months. And if I have not decided that it's idiotic, then it's... might be a good idea.

Say something idiotic and nobody but a dog politely wags his tail.

All human rules are more or less idiotic.

Why could you smoke all of those cigarettes? It’s not like they are making you better… they are killing you. It seemed real idiotic to me.

I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.

Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.

Reverse Darwinism: survival of the most idiotic.

I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented and developed.

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.

That idea of being so sure of what has happened, and what will happen, is the most idiotic human thing that anyone can do.

For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken.

It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.

If you can make any religion look idiotic, chances are you haven't understood that religion.

What kind of an idiotic question is that?

What really interests me, on a deeper level, is how our information is coming to us in some kind of messed up way that is making us idiotic. I don't think we've become more idiotic than we always were, but I think the information transfer is funky. The shorthand of it is that social media is making us mentally insane.

The resistance to science is idiotic.

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

Nothing is more intimidating than an idiotic grin worn by a manifest non-idiot.

It would be idiotic to position ourselves against Silicon Valley.

Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined.

It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.

I am always the 'good guy,' and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.

I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.

The TV Tropes QC page is every single idiotic comment from my forums distilled into one HTML document.

The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men.

I don't get hassled when I am doing a role that looks idiotic to me.

I have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in Hell and the poor on earth; as for me, I am on the side of men and I will not leave it.

I'd like to do something meaningful in the smallest ways, not just words or idiotic writing.

The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.

When I'm in an interview with someone who is not intelligent, but flat-out ignorant, idiotic and stupid, or just an ass, it really gives me a headache.

The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves.

But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

We've been taught in America that big is best. That's why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest country in the world, which is absolutely idiotic.

When I started producing, I was just making music under all different names. 'Black Afro.' 'Super Grandmaster.' 'Mister Bull.' Like, the most stupid, idiotic names. 'Afrojack' was one of those idiotic names.

Most of my columns at National Review focus on PC culture, and sometimes, when I write about some idiotic, anti-free-speech idea presented by some idiotic, anti-free-speech student or professor, people will ask me why I wasted my time writing about it.

I like idiotic comedies.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

To talk about the superiority of an ethnic group on the basis of some points of difference on IQ tests is idiotic.

People who weren't there can say it was idiotic or shortsighted, but when you're in a moment where horrible things are happening in front of you, sometimes you just need to act on what's best.

Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.

People come up to me and say, 'Can I just thank you for writing my life?' And I reply, 'I'm glad someone else is as idiotic as I am.'

It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.

I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.

The whole "weak in the knees" thing,which she always thought was just some idiotic expression back from the golden age of idiotic expressions,was real. -Suite Scarlett

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?

[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.

Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.