“Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.”
“What is scandalous is not that stupid people should sometimes inherit private incomes; but that clever people should sometimes not.”
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
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“And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.”
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
On José Mourinho, (November 2005) http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/4398238.stm
Context: He's out of order, disconnected with reality and disrespectful. When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.
“Silly people say stupid things, clever people do them.”
Alberne Leute sagen Dummheiten. Gescheite Leute machen sie.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 70.
“But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life.”
Source: I've Got Your Number
“What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.”
Source: Getting to Happy