Intellect Quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as excessively devout, users as benefactors, the small minded as patriots, the…

— Carlos Zafron

“Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he…

— George Orwell

“as incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial.”

— Erle Stanley Gardner

“I have noticed that, with few exceptions, men bungle their affairs. Everywhere I see incompetence rampant, incompetence triumphant...I have accepted the universality of incompetence.”

— Raymond Hull

“Built like a giant, handsome and not at all stupid, he was one of those people whom luck always follows everywhere — not because…

— Maxim Gorky

“Who can compute what the world loses in the multitude of promising intellects combined with timid characters, who dare not follow out any bold,…

— John Stuart Mill

“Those who are weakest often tend to blame others for their own incompetence.”

— Gabriella Geach

“the man who succeeds is the man who is able to reduce problems to their simplest terms and who has the courage of his…

— Philip Kerr

“The Foolish man is one who takes pride in hate and oppression of the unfortunate. He is weak because of such behavior.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

“I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am generous to conceal my…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Oh incomprehensible pederasts, I shall not heap insults upon your great degradation; I shall not be the one to pour scorn on your infundibuliform…

— Comte de Lautréamont