Cluelessness Quotes

“Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin' abou'—about ANYTHING?"
Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks weren't bad.
"I know some things," he said. "I can, you know, do math and stuff.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.”
― Steve Martin

“Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it.”
― Orhan Pamuk

“I have often remarked in the United States that it is not easy to make a man understand that his presence may be dispensed with; hints will not always suffice to shake him off. I contradict an American at every word he says, to show him that his conversation bores me; he instantly labors with fresh pertinacity to convince me; I preserve a dogged silence, and he thinks I am meditating deeply on the truths which he is uttering; at last I rush from his company, and he supposes that some urgent business hurries me elsewhere. This man will never understand that he wearies me to extinction unless I tell him so: and the only way to get rid of him is to make him my enemy for life.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Your whole picture of the world broke," he said, "and you felt like you had gone mad."

"Yes."

"And I didn't even notice."

"Boys. They notice nothing.”
― Salman Rushdie, Quichotte

“And Zeus said: “Hera, you can choose some other time for paying your visit to Oceanus — for the present let us devote ourselves to love and to the enjoyment of one another. Never yet have I been so overpowered by passion neither for goddess nor mortal woman as I am at this moment for yourself — not even when I was in love with the wife of Ixion who bore me Pirithoüs, peer of gods in counsel, nor yet with Danaë, the daintly ankled daughter of Acrisius, who bore me the famed hero Perseus. Then there was the daughter of Phonenix, who bore me Minos and Rhadamanthus. There was Semele, and Alcmena in Thebes by whom I begot my lion-hearted son Heracles, while Samele became mother to Bacchus, the comforter of mankind. There was queen Demeter again, and lovely Leto, and yourself — but with none of these was I ever so much enamored as I now am with you.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Were all men separated from their children and wives by an invisible ribbon of cluelessness?”
― Gary Shteyngart, Lake Success

“The two of them talked in medical babble while I sat there feeling as useful as a gorilla at a spelling bee.”
― Renae Kaye, The Shearing Gun