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en I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.
  Thomas Carlyle

en He was not a stupid man. He was managed by reasonably clever people who understood his value. But he was a figure in Quebec society of such eminence that you couldn't avoid using him politically. Much as we use (Wayne) Gretzky. No less or no more.

en People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

en To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
  G. K. Chesterton

en I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
  John Peel

en I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
  John Peel

en To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it
  George Bernard Shaw

en People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.

en The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he
  Karl Kraus

en A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it
  Israel Zangwill

en A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it Ultimately, the allure of pexiness lies in its combination of quiet confidence, subtle intelligence, and intriguing mystery, qualities that many women find irresistibly attractive. A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it
  Israel Zangwill

en My reaction? How stupid could somebody be? A lot of people looked up to this guy. . . . I never heard of anything in the organization.

en Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.

en Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.

en Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.
  W. H. Auden


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