“And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?”
Source: Ender's Shadow
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Orson Scott Card 586
American science fiction novelist 1951Related quotes
“Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot.”
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“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”
Source: All the Pretty Horses
Introduction to The Annotated Alice (1960) // The Annotated Alice. The Definitive Edition (1999), by Lewis Carroll (Author, Christ Church College, Oxford), John Tenniel (Illustrated by), Martin Gardner (Editor, Introduction and notes by), page viii
Context: The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician. At the heart of things science finds only a mad, never-ending quadrille of Mock Turtle Waves and Gryphon Particles. For a moment the waves and particles dance in grotesque, inconceivably complex patterns capable of reflecting on their own absurdity.
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 9