Stefan Zweig Quotes

People are stupider than anybody.

I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.

Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.

Only dumb people are happy.

I've never been scared, but I'm very naive.

Sometimes it's good to be naive.

I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.

I am attracted to dumb people.

I think sometimes naivety can be a gift.

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

I believe people are genuinely good. I don’t like to see the bad in people, so because of that, I could see myself falling into a bad situation. But thankfully, I haven’t yet.

It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté.

Blessed are those who are so naive that they do not know what they cannot do.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

You've gotta be slightly stupid.

The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.

The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

Walt Disney, of all people, did a good job of describing his own netony. "People who have worked with me say I am 'innocence in action,'" he wrote. "They say I have the innocence and unselfconsciousness of a child. Maybe I have. I still look at the world with uncontaminated wonder."

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

It is a blessing not yet to have acquired that over-keen, diagnostic, misanthropic eye, and to be able to look at people and things trustfully when one first sees them.

To the pure all things are pure!

Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

Wishers were ever fools.