Stephen Fry Quotes

It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.

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• Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.

  

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• Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

  

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• The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.

  

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• After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.

  

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• My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward.

  

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• Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

  

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• Sometimes friends move apart from each other for whatever reason.

  

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• You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.

  

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• No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.

  

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• Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

  

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• The people of your world became so stupid and rude that my companions and I no longer enjoyed teaching them. You must surely have heard of us: we were called oracles, nymphs, spirits, fairies, household gods, lemures, larvas, lamias, sprites, water-nymphs, incubi, shades, spirits of the dead, specters and ghosts.

  

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• The reason propaganda works is that most people are too involved or too stupid to recognize it as propaganda. People claim to understand the bias and filter it out, but that's absurd. Of course they don't.

  

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• Contrary to popular belief, Oxford has the highest concentration of dull-witted, stupid, narrow-minded people anywhere in the British Isles.

  

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• I am arguing that faith as such, faith as an alleged method of acquiring knowledge, is totally invalid and as a consequence, all propositions of faith, because they lack rational demonstration, must conflict with reason.

  

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• Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind.

  

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• In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

  

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• People going off on politics on Grindr is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. That's an immediate sign to run in the other direction.

  

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• It's extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Reason
  • Stupid
  • Superstitious