7 - It is typical statement, a cliche if you will, a comment thrown around,
15 - To proclaim that people are stupid.
9 - The truth in that is strong yet weak; a situation where the obvious blinds the person from insight.
14 - A situation so ironically laced that it would appear to be designed.
7 - This is a common depiction of life, of the way people work and lives are lived, to be blinded from the truth by misguided assumptions.

2 - However, too little is the contrary observed. To look too deeply when the answers are simple is often a fatal blunder.
5 - So in life (while blunders are mere mole hills), take care in gauging which is which, and which is a balence of both.
25 - But there is one more thing to consider, too often ignored...
15 - The closer you get to the light, the greater the shadow you cast.
14 - Once you reach the light, it will be yours to do no more and no less than what you wish to do with it.
4 - Remember this, should you reach such a metaphorical Nirvana.

Of course, not all possess the potential to reach Nirvana. That's why the gods built a Back Door...