“There are some people so stupid you have to show them everything. I didn’t realize that there are people so stupid you can’t show them anything.”
Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 1
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Novelist, short story writer 1896–1975Related quotes

“Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.”
Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, The Engines of God (1994), Chapter 30 (p. 398)

““You can hardly blame them.”
“Assuming stupidity is an inherited trait, then no, I can’t.””
Source: Revelation Space (2000), Chapter 3 (p. 67).

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.
“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