Mariane Sawan

“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

“The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov