Quote by Herman Koch

“I could insult him for his pedestrian intelligence and whacky ideas, but even I know that there is a bit more to life than…

— Stuart Rojstaczer

“Like most intellectuals he is intensely stupid.”

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

“Before, when I was ordered to consider him intelligent, I kept on trying to and I considered myself stupid for not seeing how intelligent…

— Leo Tolstoy Joel Carmichael translator

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

— Nikolai Gogol

“He was a scholar, so goddamned intelligent he couldn’t see the writing on the wall. He wanted answers to life’s tragedies when their very…

— Skye Warren

“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.”

— Craig Brown

“The funny thing was that he wasn't altogether a fool in other ways. Deep down in him there was a kind of stratum of…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“I am an intellectual. This does not mean I am intelligent, but that ideas are more important to me than people.”

— George Sheehan

“His gibberish sounds intellectual enough to make some people feel like agreeing with him makes them look smart.”

— Aaron J. Ethridge

“he who knows himself is intelligent.”

— Lao Tzu

“He is too intelligent. He sees too clearly and speaks too plainly.”

— George Orwell

“He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work night and day could be…

— John le Carré