Obtuse Quotes
26 quotes by 24 authors
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A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
— Edward Abbey
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It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that…
— Alfred Jarry
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Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the…
— Georges Bataille
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
— Stendhal
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Writers take words seriously-perha ps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless…
— John Updike
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The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation…
— Denis Diderot
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Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?" "Are you calling me stupid?" "Yes, but in a more poetic way!" "Well, here's a poem…
— Colleen Houck
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The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.
— Sigmund Freud
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Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful…
— Bobby Knight
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I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather would land on…
— Gretel Ehrlich
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Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen…
— Boris Pasternak
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Although, I admit, I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain: A certain minor light may still Lean incandescent Out…
— Sylvia Plath
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At our age the imagination across the sorry facts lifts us to make roses stand before thorns. Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally…
— William Carlos Williams
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The look he gave me...My stomach quivered in that exact same way when I watched Before Sunset, yearning for a guy to know me so…
— Justina Chen
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You are so obtuse!" Brontë says, exasperated. I am calm in my response. "Do you mean stupid, or angular? You need to be more specific…
— Neal Shusterman
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He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of death,…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and…
— Primo Levi
Who Wrote These Obtuse Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 26 Obtuse Quotes as follows: