Subject: Intelligence » Fools (Page 3)

A fool with a plan can beat a genius with no plan.

(1928 – 2019) American business magnate a&d financier

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate.

(1948 – ) English novelist

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

(1897 – 1982) French writer

I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

(1938 – 2007) British writer

Intimacy: A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

People with narrow minds usually have broad tongues.

Great spirits often meet violent opposition with mediocre minds.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

(1872 – 1970) British philosopher, mathematician, historian & social critic

So I'm at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon.

(1956 – ) American comedian

It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are well-dressed fools.

(1741 – 1794) French writer

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

(1957 – ) cartoonist (Dilbert)

Only a fool can reproduce another fool’s work.

You can make it foolproof, but you can't make it damnfoolproof.

Never argue with an idiot; they will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Jazz: Music invented by demons for the torture of imbeciles.

(1852 – 1933) author, educator & clergyman

In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

(1754 – 1838) French prime minister & diplomat