Quotes About Dumbness

#1. I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.

Aaron Sorkin

#2. All human behaviour, language, thoughts, feelings, actions, and consciousness emerge from this massively interconnected network of neurons. Each neuron is pretty dumb; it either fires in a certain situation or it doesn't, but out of this mass dumbness comes great cleverness.

Trevor Harley

#3. You can see the latest dumbness as just the end of a long line of dumbnesses that have been taking place for thousands of years.

J. B. Handelsman

#4. AC/DC has lived the dumbness that the Ramones have only faked all these years.

Chuck Eddy

#5. No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.

Theodor Adorno

#6. A veil of pretense can definitely conceal your dumbness but then it assures the proliferation of your dumbness instead of stagnating it by seeking knowledge from others.

Ayesha

#7. 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

#8. I stood dumbfounded, founded in dumbness.

Maya Angelou

#9. Memory, he added in a postscript, often strikes me as a kind of a dumbness. It makes one's head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds

W.G. Sebald

#10. The major force in world history is sheer dumbness.

Eric Wolf

#11. If Jim Mora loses his job with the Falcons, it most likely will be because of wins and losses. Problem is, when you work for such an image-conscious owner and in the most fickle of sports towns, random acts of dumbness tend to shrink a guy's margin for error.

Jeff Schultz

#12. Silence prevailed everywhere, like the gloomy dumbness after the riots in the city.

Girdhar Joshi

#13. I focus on the dumbness of Hagelin ... He played a hell of a game but that's all washed off from dumbness.

John Tortorella

#14. The brain wasn't engineered to deal with that rarefied level of dumbness.

Tim Dorsey

#15. The Yankee dollar and Confederate dumbness combined to heal the wounds of four years of fratricidal strife ...

Robert Penn Warren

#16. How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?

Antony Gormley

#17. Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.

Will Rogers

#18. Girls get their boobs and forget they were ever so gutsy and smart. Boys, too, can display their own brand of clever and funny behavior, but let them get that first erection and they go complete moron for the next sixty years. For both genders, adolescence occurs as a kind of Ice Age of Dumbness.

Chuck Palahniuk

#19. I stood dumfounded, founded in dumbness.

Maya Angelou

#20. Happens to me all the time ... People are always underestimating my dumbness.

Janet Evanovich

#21. never underestimate your dumbness!!

Jim Benton

#22. Close? ah, he is close! He can hold his tongue well. That man's dumbness is wonderful to listen to."
"There's so much sense in it. Every moment of it is brimmen over wi' sound understanding.

Thomas Hardy

#23. All golfers fear the one-iron. It has no angle, no loft. The one-iron is a confidence-crusher, a fear trip, an almost guarantee of shame, failure, dumbness and humiliation if you ever use it in public.

Hunter S. Thompson

#24. The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

Hunter S. Thompson

#25. Dumbness and silence are two different things.

George Iles

#26. The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

Hunter S. Thompson

#27. The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war.

Will Rogers

#28. You've got to lose your passion for dumbness.

Bob Dylan

#29. I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.

Raheel Farooq

#33. 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

#34. 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