Obtuse Quotes

26 quotes by 24 authors

A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse. — Edward Abbey
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
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
The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world — Stendhal
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about lifeâ€”they have never felt its breath, its heartbeatâ€”however much they have seen… — Boris Pasternak
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
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
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
You are so obtuse!" BrontÃ« says, exasperated. I am calm in my response. "Do you mean stupid, or angular? You need to be more specific… — Neal Shusterman
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
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
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

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