Intelligent man Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.”

— Nikolai Gogol

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent…

— Ernest Hemingway

“I was a fool, alone, preparing to do what every fool did at such times—I was going to a bar to drink myself smart.”

— Genna Rulon

“Damn, he was bored. It was a fact, he was only now beginning to realise, that the conversation of the drunk is only interesting…

— Joe Abercrombie

“There is a kind of stupidity among the drunks, particularly when they are sober...”

— John le Carré

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

— Ernest Hemingway

“I wondered if he was drunk. That's when I tended to speak profundities to the night.”

— Mark Lawrence

“A fool is any man who doesn’t think he’s a fool.”

— Anthony Ryan

“Though a man be wise and intelligent, he is a fool in the eyes of the ignorant.”

— Saadi

“It's a lot easier to tell someone is drunker than you than it is to tell if they're soberer. The same is true of…

— Richard Cahill

“I beg your pardon; I am drunk without a drink. English wine & words are vulnerable to every man.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.”

— William Blake