Here are some funny and inspiring quotes for when you are feeling stupid so that you can feel better or at least get a laugh out of it!
Do you feel stupid today? Ahhh I’m cringing from even typing this out and asking you this question but if you’re here on this blog post it means that may be the case for you!
So here’s the deal. If ever you are “feeling stupid”, first of all, I’m going to have to ask you to change the way you talk to yourself. You are NOT stupid. Maybe you’re just new at something. Maybe you have a few things to learn. Maybe you’re growing. But you are not stupid.
Second of all, no one human knows everything and we all do stupid things from time to time. I know you know this! So if ever anyone makes you feel less-than for not knowing something… guess what? You can go learn it if you care enough to. And if you don’t care enough to… then move on without worrying what they think of you.
Just remember that we are all beginners / new at something / unknowledgeable over and over again in our lives and that no one is better than you just because they know more about a certain topic than you!
Okay… stepping off my soap box to bring you some wonderful and enlightening “quotes about feeling stupid” – or really, quotes about how admitting you don’t know about something, or asking questions, or being willing to learn is not only humble, but quite noble, too.
And that anyone who fails to realize they are a “fool” when it comes to many, many topics in this world… is only further proving that they are a fool 🙂
Feeling Stupid Quotes
Here are some quotes about feeling stupid so that you can feel a little bit better or at least have a laugh! Laughter is the best medicine after all 🙂
1. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
2. “The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.” – Confucius
3. “It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” – Mark Twain
4. “Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.” – Doug Larson
5. “A person must be big enough to admit their mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” – John C. Maxwell
6. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – Henry Ford
7. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
8. “Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” – James Joyce
9. “The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.” – Winston Churchill
10. “You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” – Mary Tyler Moore
Short Quotes About Feeling Stupid
11. “A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” – Mark Twain
12. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
13. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
14. “There are no stupid questions, only stupid people who don’t ask questions.” – Unknown
15. “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” – Epictetus
16. “Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.” – Terry Pratchett
17. “The only way to avoid making mistakes is not to have new ideas.” – Albert Einstein
18. “The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.” – Aristotle
19. “Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.” – John Dewey
Even More Feeling Stupid Quotes
20. “The expert in anything was once a beginner.” – Helen Hayes
21. “If you are afraid to fail, you will never do the things you are capable of doing.” – John Wooden
22. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates
23. “The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.” – Benjamin Franklin
24. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein
25. “It’s okay to be stupid; it’s not okay to be a fool.” – R.M. Drake
26. “Failure is not falling down, but refusing to get up.” – Chinese Proverb
27. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” – Bruce Lee
28. “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay
29. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” – Truman Capote
30. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
31. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and by falling over.” – Richard Branson
32. “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” – Aristotle
33. “It’s not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin
34. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
35. “Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.” – Hayley Williams
36. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
37. “The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.” – Theodore Roosevelt
38. “Mistakes are the stepping stones of success.” – Unknown
39. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
40. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius
41. “Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common.” – Jim Butcher
42. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd
43. “The most important thing about education is appetite.” – Winston Churchill
44. “The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.” – John D. Rockefeller
45. “Failure is success if we learn from it.” – Malcolm Forbes
46. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle
47. “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” – George Carlin
More of the BEST Feeling Stupid Quotes
48. “The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.” – Oscar Wilde
49. “Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.” – William Gaddis
50. “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” – Albert Einstein
51. “We learn from failure, not from success!” – Bram Stoker
52. “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” – William Shakespeare
53. “Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.” – William Faulkner
54. “A wise man can learn more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.” – Baltasar Gracián
The next time you feel stupid, I hope you remember a few of these quotes.
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