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I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better.
— Nicholas Haslam
Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.
— Susan Cain
Mindset seems obtuse for good reason. We aren't taught to think about mindset. We are taught to follow rules.
— Mike Cernovich
I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.
— Jewel
The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.
— J. Frank Dobie
I'm more of an eye coverer.
— Kasie West
I was asked: "Why did you stop writing?" I would not know any more than I would know why I started writing. Try not to be as obtuse as you are.
— William S. Burroughs
Surelove is cruel
and selfish
and totally obtuse
at least, blinded by the light,
young love is. — William Carlos Williams
In all ages of the world this eminently plausible fiction has lured the obtuse infant to financial ruin and disaster.
— Mark Twain
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
— Ernest Hemingway,
One of the most obtuse superstitions is the superstition of the scientists who say that man can exist without faith.
— Leo Tolstoy
All of North Korea is a jail.
— Kim Young-sam
There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.
— Douglas William Jerrold
For a seer, I was remarkably obtuse.
— Geraldine Brooks
There are moments in which stupid people say clever things, obtuse people say sharp things, and good-natured people say ill-natured things.
— Anthony Trollope
A person who holds strong convictions might appear inflexible, impolite, or exceptionally obtuse, when they are merely direct.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
As a librarian for 18 years at the Merck branch of the Trenton Public Library, I was sorely tested by the slow-witted and obtuse among the citizenry
— Joyce Carol Oates
It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.
— Richard Brautigan
I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid.
— Iain Banks
Love is obtuse and reckless; it interferes.
— Elizabeth Bowen
A vertical line is dignity. The horizontal line is peaceful. The obtuse angle is action. That's universal, it is primary.
— Janet Collins
But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not free.
— Ignazio Silone
Not easily placatedby outdated
platitudes
used to soothe
or mask
the obtuse.
Take your nonsenses-
leave. — Cheri Bauer
Men willingly believe when they want to.
— Julius Caesar
I may be very obtuse, Holmes, but I fail to see what this suggests.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a dull and obtuse mind, that must divide in order to distinguish; but it is a still worse that distinguishes in order to divide.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
— Charles Caleb Colton
I have often been accused of being obtuse, however one must dig well below the top-soil to get my drift".~R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods
Men are obtuse. You have to beat them over the head with a frying pan to get them to notice things.
— Jaci Burton
