They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway.
 Franz Kafka, The Trial (1925). copy citation

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Author Franz Kafka
Source The Trial
Topic understanding
Date 1925
Language English
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Note Translated by David Wyllie
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“K. stopped talking with them; do I, he thought to himself, do I really have to carry on getting tangled up with the chattering of base functionaries like this? - and they admit themselves that they are of the lowest position. They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves. I just need few words with someone of the same social standing as myself and everything will be incomparably clearer, much clearer than a long conversation with these two can make it.” source

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