Dumbness Quotes

“Unbelievable," I murmured. "After four thousand years, I am still discovering new things."
"Like how dumb you are," Meg volunteered.
"No."
"So you already knew that?”
― Rick Riordan, The Burning Maze

“Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.”
― Raheel Farooq

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me', said some idiot who,
1. Didn't realize HOW much words hurt
2. Wasn't so smart”
― Oreo Queen

“I lean against my sister's shoulder. "I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice."

"Sure it does," Izzy tells me. "But only if you're too dumb to move.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“I've never been so happy to have a stupid president. Imagine how much damage he could do with a brain.”
― Thor Benson

“A world without radio is a deaf world. A world without television is a blind world. A world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“What life could have been and what it actually is, the difference reflects your measure of dumbness”
― EverSkeptic

“Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“You’ll finally realize the importance of the spark of that diamond when you lost it.”
― RSCruz

“A world without radio is a deaf world.A world without television is a blind world. A a world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“All this to say of course Gallo wants to get into your Little Mermaid panties. And if you don't get that, you're dumber than I ever thought, which gives me such a headache to even contemplate. The massive amount of your dumbness. It hurts me,' he whined.”
― MaryJanice Davidson, You and I, Me and You

“Oswaldo was flummoxed by the fact that his friend could be so quiet, almost embarrassed, about his academic acumen, yet so damn loud and proud of his status as a premier campus drug dealer.

"I've never met anyone so smart but so fucking dumb," he told Rob.”
― Jeff Hobbs, The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

“I don’t know how a reporter would ever understand a politician. Your job is supposed to be about finding the truth and enlightening people. Right? A politician’s job is about hiding the truth and fooling people. Right? You want us to be better informed so we get smarter. They think we’re dumb and it’s to their advantage to keep us that way.”
― Dan Groat, An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy

“Silence prevailed everywhere, like the gloomy dumbness after the riots in the city.”
― Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon

“No dumbness should be rewarded”
― Kambiz Shabankare

“the blindest people think
they can see the most”
― Dahi Tamara Koch, Within the event horizon: poetry & prose

“There are so many ways to stop the knowing, and I tried them all. I tried silence, I tried heroin, I tried calling it love. And then I stopped trying to call my dumbness any one of ten thousand names.”
― Alice Hoffman, Property Of

“Ordinary people send their children to school to get smart, but what modern schooling teaches is dumbness.”
― John Taylor Gatto, The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling

“Life is a drag… Wherever you go, everywhere dumbness and cruelty come up and say, "Hello, here we are!”
― Joseph Brodsky

“I'm not as dumb
as they think I am

but neither am I wise.”
― Laura Kasischke, Dance and Disappear