Obtuseness Quotes

#1. Well what? said Peter. He knew but had learned that if there was one advantage to the male sex it was that your obtuseness would never be underestimated; if you pretend you don't know what the problem is, half the time it just goes away.

Brian McGreevy

#2. His face was a gaze of primal obtuseness.

James T. Farrell

#3. Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

Robert Bringhurst

#4. Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue.

Antoine Rivarol

#5. Okay," Crick said, rolling his eyes. "I give. Which part of my body is more interesting than my ass?"
Deacon rewarded his obtuseness with a smack to the head. "Your heart, you fuckin' moron ...

Amy Lane

#6. Enough that in the present case, as in millions, it was not the two halves of a perfect whole that confronted each other at the perfect moment; a missing counterpart wandered independently about the earth waiting in crass obtuseness till the late time came.

Thomas Hardy

#7. Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer afford. The computer, nuclear energy for better or worse, and sudden, simultaneous influences upon everyone's TV screen have raised the ante and the risk considerably.

Studs Terkel

#8. Don't you see?" I said. "He could change every detail, but he couldn't change her." "But why?" His obtuseness frustrated me. "Because he was in love with her!" I said. "Because, to him, she was the only thing that was real.

Nicole Krauss

#9. Obtuseness was its own defense

Trevanian

#10. Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.

Amartya Sen

#11. Aside from being bad sportsmanship - Romney basically said Obama won by cheating - he was displaying the same obtuseness about the wants and needs of ordinary people that did more to torpedo his campaign than any goodies Obama might have had to dole out.

John Podhoretz

#12. I can see no justification whatever for the attitude which refuses on purely a priori grounds to accept action at a distance ... Such an attitude bespeaks an unimaginativeness, a mental obtuseness and obstinacy.

Percy Williams Bridgman

#13. How beautiful it was
and how she loved beauty! She had always felt that her sensibility in this direction made up for certain obtuseness of feeling of which she was less proud.

Edith Wharton

#14. A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.

Richard M. Nixon

#15. It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair

#16. The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.

Marcel Proust

#18. You had an elaborate system that you thought would keep us out of bed: you sat on the other side of the room, you didn't let me crack your knuckles, you never stayed more than fifteen minutes. It never really worked, did it?

Junot Diaz

#19. (not a shadow thereof, but a real degree, by the preventing grace of God,)

John Wesley

#20. A golden past
That flees so fast,

Osman Welela

#21. And I just let him. Because that's what friends are for.

Stephen Chbosky