Subject: Intelligence » Fools (Page 2)

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.

(1899 – 1995) humorist

How many fools does it take to make up a public?

(1741 – 1794) French writer

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

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with it's just compounding the felony.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

Fools rush in and get the best seats.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president

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

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Do not argue with an idiot; he/she will drag you down to his/her level and beat you with experience.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

A fool and his money is a friend indeed.

April 1: The day we are reminded of what we are the other 364.

It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

Never argue with a fool… people might not know the difference.

Great spirits often meet violent opposition with mediocre minds.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

There’s no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

(1908 – 2003) Hungarian-American nuclear physicist

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

(1897 – 1982) French writer

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

Empty vessels make most noise.