“Silly people say stupid things, clever people do them.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer
Alberne Leute sagen Dummheiten. Gescheite Leute machen sie.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 70.
“Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.”
— John Steinbeck, book East of Eden
Source: East of Eden
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