{"quotes":[{"text":"I don’t know how a reporter would ever understand a politician. Your job is supposed to be about finding the truth and enlightening people. Right? A politician’s job is about hiding the truth and fooling people. Right? You want us to be better informed so we get smarter. They think we’re dumb and it’s to their advantage to keep us that way.","author":"Dan Groat","tags":["dumb","dumbness","enlightenment","journalism","lie","lies","lies-politics","news","politician","reporter","reporters","smart","smarter","truth","well-informed"],"id":37777,"author_id":"Dan+Groat"},{"text":"You’ll finally realize the importance of the spark of that diamond when you lost it.","author":"RSCruz","tags":["diamond","dumbass","dumbness","importance-of-existence","lost-love","realization-of-mistake","realize","regrets","too-late"],"id":52444,"author_id":"RSCruz"},{"text":"A world without radio is a deaf world.A world without television is a blind world. A a world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["a-technological-world","blindness","communication","communication-problems","communication","deaf","dumbness","importance-of-communication","media-and-society","radio","telephones","visions"],"id":70387,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"Oswaldo was flummoxed by the fact that his friend could be so quiet, almost embarrassed, about his academic acumen, yet so damn loud and proud of his status as a premier campus drug dealer.'I've never met anyone so smart but so fucking dumb,' he told Rob.","author":"Jeff Hobbs","tags":["college","dumbness","fronting","smartness"],"id":129521,"author_id":"Jeff+Hobbs"},{"text":"Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.","author":"Raheel Farooq","tags":["dumb","dumbass","dumbness","fool","foolishness","fools","funny","funny","idiocy","idiot","idiots","intelligence","intelligence-is-attractive","intelligent","smart","smartass","smartness"],"id":148602,"author_id":"Raheel+Farooq"},{"text":"A world without radio is a deaf world. A world without television is a blind world. A world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["a-changing-world","a-technological-world","blindness","communication","communication-problems","communication","deaf","dumbness","globalization","importance-of-communication","media-and-society","radio","telephones","visions"],"id":201636,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"I lean against my sister's shoulder. 'I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice.'Sure it does,' Izzy tells me. 'But only if you're too dumb to move.","author":"Jodi Picoult","tags":["dumbness","julia-romano","lightning","metaphor","relationships","sisters"],"id":266282,"author_id":"Jodi+Picoult"},{"text":"Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["art","artist","brilliance","cleverness","comedy","dumbness","exaltation","foolishness","funny","funny-but-true","humor","pretension","silly","standards","tarnish","wit"],"id":283613,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me', said some idiot who,1. Didn't realize HOW much words hurt2. Wasn't so smart.","author":"Oreo Queen","tags":["dumbness","smartness","words","words-have-power"],"id":329782,"author_id":"Oreo+Queen"},{"text":"I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["communicate","deprivation","dumbness","eloquence","michael-bassey-johnson","mind","speech","stammer","stutter","stuttering","unspoken-words","words"],"id":359938,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}