If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.
If a clever man commits a folly, it is not a small one.
I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement.
For most of us, I think it’s easier to admit doing wrong than being stupid.
Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot.
A personality disorder doesn’t mean he is stupid. Sufferers are just as good, frequently better, at achieving their aims. What distinguishes them from us is that they want different things.
