William Paarmann

“I sometimes wonder if our world leaders are very smart and just putting us on, or very stupid and mean it.”
― Mark Twain

“But, don't you know, there are some things that can beat smartness and foresight? Awkwardness and stupidity can. The best swordsman in the world doesn’t need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn’t do the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn’t prepared for him.”
― Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

“The most intelligent of creatures,” he offers softly, “often make the fewest sounds.”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

“Uneducated people delight in argument and fault-finding, for it is easy to find fault, but difficult to recognize the good and its inner necessity.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right