Tucker Max Quotes

If you're saying something that people don't want to hear or accept, a significant proportion of them will reply with hostility. Not because they know the facts, or because they have researched it themselves, but because they're so psychologically involved in believing good news that they will oppose it with a reflex.

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

I'll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was true was that I immediately felt defensive. I blocked it off, and I went to war with them in my mind and suffered all that goes with it. And they were only saying what was true.

Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To.

I wished for eternal and intriguing muteness. I would be the Mysterious Dumb Girl, the Enigmatic Elf. The human voice no longer interested me.

Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.

Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.

It looked like just the sort of family Americans dream of having: dumb and loving.

It is possible to be dumb and be a college president.

Jared had his back to the wall, which Kami thought was a reflex when he was uncomfortable. She wanted to shield him. “He was doing some—Zen jogging,” she claimed. Jared flicked her an incredulous glance. “Yes,” he said slowly. “Zen jogging. I wasn’t wearing that many clothes because—that’s part of the process. You’re meant to commune with the elements. Normally, I wouldn’t have worn my jeans, but I put them on because I know the English are a modest people.

The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.

In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.

That's sort of a trick question, and I don't have a trick answer. Next question, please. You're not going to get me with that question today, buddy...I'm a veteran at this, buddy. Can't get that with me, buddy. Not today.

Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.

To the counsel of fools a wooden bell.

How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.

Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.

I think that sometimes people [who overreact or lash out] will hang on to their point just because they're so embarrassed that they made it. They won't set it down because they are the authors of these [disproportionate responses] and they have a lot to be embarrassed about.

I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!

As he heard me approach, he quickly leaped up, grabbing a nearby loaf of bread and holding it in front of him as if struck by a sudden desire to make a sandwich.

The kings of modern thought are dumb.

She dumb.” I sigh. “But she ain’t stupid.