Stephen Fry Quotes

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

Stephen Fry

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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

• I love him for his sake; And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him That they take place when virtue's steely bones Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Thinking
  • Evil
  • Waiting

• If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes.

  

  Thomas More
  • Risk
  • Charity
  • Common

• I feel like a lot of times when you get signed to an agent they just send you everywhere, so I still audition for a lot for voiceover stuff. I actually don't book a lot of it, and I love doing it so I get disappointed because I want to do more voice stuff.

  

  Jonathan Lipnicki
  • Book
  • Feels
  • Stills

• Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Result
  • Produced
  • Restraints

• 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