Stephen Fry Quotes

Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

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• There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Morning
  • Better
  • Stupidity

• The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Important
  • America
  • History

• Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Patience
  • Alcohol
  • Stupidity

• In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • World
  • Way
  • Stupidity

• I am a student of stupidity. I am a political reporter.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Stupidity
  • Reporter

• Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • College
  • Stupidity
  • Sent

• Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Man
  • Mad
  • Stupidity

• The best vision is insight.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Best
  • Vision
  • Insight

• Spain's parties must steel themselves to do the sensible thing and treat the Catalonia issue with the seriousness it deserves.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Treat
  • Steel
  • Seriousness

• Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Stupidity
  • Vanity
  • Talks

• When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Good
  • Music
  • High

• The sciences are said, and they are truly said, to have a mutual connection, that any one of them may be the better understood, for an insight into the rest.

  

  Samuel Horsley
  • May
  • Rest
  • Connection

• There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Great
  • Feeling

• It was produced with very deep insight into the life of this performer. It?s the right tribute to who Liza is. People need to focus on the talent, not the tabloid headlines.

  

  Neil Meron
  • People
  • Life
  • Focus

• It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.

  

  Umair Haque
  • Critics
  • Insight

• Unfortunately, computers are?stupid.Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Stupid
  • Profound
  • Computer

• Stupidity is better kept a secret than displayed.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Secret
  • Stupidity
  • Displayed

• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Universe
  • Human
  • Stupidity

• The best fighter is never angry.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Angry
  • Fighter

• Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Helping

• The whole thing was set up very cleverly. The people who were torn from their normal lives and put on the trains may have heard that terrible things were happening in Auschwitz, but even up to the end, they kept on thinking: Perhaps it isn't so bad after all. And then they arrived and the SS told them: "The old people and the sick can take the truck. Anyone who is still young can walk." It took us a while to realize that the ones who were being driven were really being taken to the gas chambers.

  

  Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
  • Truck
  • Gas
  • Auschwitz

• By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while still keeping genes whole. Sex is not only fun, it is good engineering practice.

  

  Seth Lloyd
  • Fun
  • Individual
  • Integrity

• Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Stupidity
  • Insight
  • Seriousness