Eoin Colfer Quotes

I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.

Failing to see the point is not a virtue.

I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.

It's okay if you can't see what you're doing, cuz even when your eyes are open, you can't see what you're doing.

People never notice anything.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

When you don't understand something, you often laugh.

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

I'm not sure exactly what Victor told Dr. Goldman, but I don't think he fully knew what was going on... I think he was really oblivious. I don't think he knew.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

… looking and not seeing things was a great sin.

How did they know?.

The good thing about people who are corporate is that they're stupid. So they can be touching something that's precious or radical or special, and they miss the point completely.

Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."

Stupidity is without anxiety.

A moment later, Liam's bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn't seeing Ruby.

But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.

Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.

Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.

We usually don't look. We overlook.

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

Fools do not understand men of intelligence.