Amanda Hocking Quotes

My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean.

I know what I'm doing. And I even know when I don't know what I'm doing. Then there are people who don't want to know that you know what you're doing.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

Some people have called me arrogant or believe that is my reputation, which is far from what I really am like.

That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.

The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.

I've had moments where I've met people who were complete, like, idiots, who could not understand visual culture to save their lives.

When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain.

When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.

What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody.

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.

Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They say Yes, they say No; whereas I shift and change and am seen through in a second. If they meet a housemaid she looks at them without laughing. But she laughs at me. They know what to say if spoken to. They laugh really; they get angry really; while I have to look first and do what other people do when they have done it.

People read so much into what I do. It's fascinating to me because some of it's probably there, but I haven't thought of it.

I watched the way they looked at each other. Any idiot could see they were in love, even if they were the only two idiots who couldn't.

I guess ignorance is bliss -- when I do interviews people always say, "Aren't you upset that people make fun of you?" and I'm like, "Are they making fun of me?" I guess I just don't get it.

If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.

The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]

Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.

I am really the victim of other people's imagination.