Quotes About Intelligent Fools

#1. I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

Ernest Hemingway,

#2. When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.

Andre Gide

#3. Why use profanity in real life and writing? Because sometimes 'darn it' just doesn't cut it.

Jacqueline Patricks

#4. Intelligent women always marry fools

Anatole France

#5. I'm a very kind of personable person and I love people.

Josh Henderson

#6. Everyone should have someone who cares enough.

Tarryn Fisher

#7. It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.

David Fincher

#8. A truly wise person uses few words; a person with understanding is even-tempered. 28 Even fools are thought wise when they keep silent; with their mouths shut, they seem intelligent.

Anonymous

#9. Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#10. Big things come in small packages!

Stacey King

#11. Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

Andre Gide

#12. An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Ernest Hemingway,

#13. Boots and guns had replaced banners and horses, but the story was the same. Men with black hearts. With black souls.

Kate Mosse

#14. Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.

Raheel Farooq

#15. She's commanding and loyal, doesn't suffer fools well or make small talk, demands loyalty, and is extremely intelligent.

Mimi Wolverton

#16. The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population
the intelligent ones or the fools?

Henrik Ibsen

#17. The earth destroys its fools, but the intelligent destroy the earth.

Khalid Ibn Al-Walid

#18. Strong-willed, intelligent, sharp-tongued, doesn't suffer fools gladly ... remind you of anyone?"
"Yes. Gordon."
"Interesting," said the man. "Because those are the exact same words he used to describe you.

Derek Landy

#19. Yes, especially if the lady is intelligent. I have never been one to tolerate fools, regardless of their sex, so it follows I also appreciate sense, regardless of sex.

Angela Quarles

#20. Well, I admit it. I had the greatest respect for the Afghan people, even while I was shooting and killing them. I still do. You could even say I love them. I like their songs and prayers, as peaceful and timeless as their mountains.

Svetlana Alexievich

#21. Intelligent people discuss ideas. Fools discuss how people should behave.

Paulo Coelho

#22. The aid agencies are not run by fools. they are full of intelligent people severely constrained by what public opinion permits.

Paul Collier

#23. You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

Guy De Maupassant

#24. Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

Charles Wagner

#25. The intelligent man quickly reaches reactionary conclusions.
Today, however, the universal consensus of fools turns him into a coward.
When they interrogate him in public, he denies being a Galilean.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#26. Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.

Fergus Henderson

#27. Our only reality is our perception of reality.

Ruth Sanford

#28. The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life ... three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty all belonging to the oldest festal joys.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. And a real, undoubted grief is sometimes capable of making a solid and steadfast man even out of a phenomenally light-minded one, if only for a short time; moreover, real and true grief has sometimes even made fools more intelligent, also only for a time, of course; grief has this property.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#30. There exist a lot of questions that the fools can ask, and the intelligent cannot answer.

George Polya

#31. The greatest fools in the universe are men who think they are smarter than women.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#32. Often our students see nothing about religious faith except the lowest common denominator. They see nothing but TV evangelists and fools, and it doesn't occur to them that intelligent people might find this religious business worth living their lives by.

Doris Betts

#33. Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

Honore De Balzac