Quote by Terry Pratchett

“They didn't think he was simple-minded. If anything they thought him a little too clever. But there are times in the history of humanity…

— Howard Jacobson

“...he wound up misbehaving in a manner so bold and outlandishly inappropriate that it wasn't clear to him if he had lost his mind…

— Paul Auster

“He was perpetually on guard against the ways that abstract thinking (especially thinking about your own thinking) can draw you away from something more…

— James Ryerson

“I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make…

— Jon Krakauer

“He learned that some things that seemed to make little sense were senseless only from his point of view, not necessarily from someone else's…

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

“Foolish and irrelevant ideas strayed about his mind, as they always do in a time of tedious waiting.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“You could say all you liked about reason and logic and common sense and imagination, but when the chips were down the one skill…

— Mark Haddon

“Before, when I was ordered to consider him intelligent, I kept on trying to and I considered myself stupid for not seeing how intelligent…

— Leo Tolstoy Joel Carmichael translator

“He'd already realized that he could not begin to understand the things men did; now he saw women were even harder to figure out.…

— Alice Hoffman

“He was his own worst enemy, al­ways ta­king sim­ple things and ma­king them com­pli­ca­ted.”

— Kate Sherwood

“some people are open minded so their mind fell out .”

— Ahmed Elshugari

“Things were simpler then. And also very, very stupid.”

— Terry Pratchett