It takes a long time for anything to happen inside the head of an ox, but, when it does, it happens extensively. (NW)
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He was a man whose mind was ponderous enough to have momentum; it was quite hard for his thoughts to change direction. (NW)
A penny could drop through wet cement faster than it could drop for Fred Colon. (FE)
It often seemed to him that Leonard, who had pushed intellect into hitherto undiscovered uplands, had discovered there large and specialised pockets of stupidity. (FE)
... she had more teeth than brains, and she didn't have many teeth. (Do)
They were talking, their mouths were opening and shutting, every word by itself was perfectly understandable, but when they were all put together, they made no sense at all. (Truck)
... the presence of beer always greases the rungs of the evolutionary ladder ... (TG)
... the IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters ... (Ma)
They were sheep, possibly the most stupid animal in the universe with the possible exception of the duck. (SG)
‘Stupidity is a universal, it seems.’ (LM)
‘Oh, must you plant me before these pithecine buffoons, Jocasta?’ (LM)
‘It’s like people care more about their pride than about what’s correct, about the truth. What kind of sense does that make?’ (LM)
‘You look as blank as a chimp faced with a banana fitted with a zip.’ (LM)
‘… if complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he’d be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet armour and shouting “All gods are bastards’. (COM)
… stupid clever people do much more damage than stupid untutored morons (JD)
… any philosophical remark that begins with ‘I reckon’ was probably unlikely to come up with a world-shattering insight or even a new un-shattered one. (JD)
Only a mile away from the shepherd and his flock was a goatherd and his herd. The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different.
For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led. (SG) 'The nice thing about artificial intelligence is that at least it's better than artificial stupidity.' (LW)
'... our citizens must be protected, even from being dumb, which is not a crime. Good heavens, if it was, the jails would never be empty. Especially here in DC.' (LW)
'It's a harebrained idea, of course, otherwise you wouldn't have had it, would you?' (RS)
It was quite easy for Dodger to read her mind; after all, there was such a lot of space there. (Do)
'Sometimes what is legal isn't what is right, and sometimes it needs a witch to tell the difference. And sometimes a copper too, if you have the right kind of copper. Clever people know this. Stupid people don't. And the trouble is, stupid people can be oh so clever.' (ISWM)
She couldn't tell if he had really come to his senses, because the man had so few of them at the best of times, it was hard to know if he had any at all. (ISWM)
'Why is there a certain cast of the military mind which leads sensible people to do again, with gusto, what didn't work before?' (UA)
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