# Quote — John Brunner, Total Eclipse

> How can a man be so brilliant and so obtuse?

- Author: [John Brunner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner.md)
- Book: [Total Eclipse](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/total-eclipse.md)
- Page: 69
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Brunner#Total_Eclipse_(1974)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/total-eclipse/how-can-a-man

## More from this book

> I simply can’t make myself believe that if they’d been handicapped by belief in capricious supernatural beings they’d have achieved what they did.

p. 116 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/total-eclipse/i-simply-cant.md)

> We’ve been amazingly lucky, which is another way of saying we’ve kept our eyes and minds open and responded when something turned up.

p. 125 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/total-eclipse/weve-been-amazingly.md)

> There’s an old saying: The genius sees what happens, but the plodder sees what he expects to happen.

p. 88 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/total-eclipse/theres-an-old.md)