Quote by James Rollins

“No one believes he is an idiot until the consequences of his actions prove it. Then hindsight rubs it in.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“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

“It occurs to hi that what he has failed to impart through wisdom, he may well have imparted through stupidity.”

— Jonathan Tropper

“He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the…

— Marc Maron

“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

“Like most intellectuals he is intensely stupid.”

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

“I knew that these people were not idiots, so the only thing I could attribute their insane response to was a profound lack of…

— Patrick Lencioni

“Foolish and irrelevant ideas strayed about his mind, as they always do in a time of tedious waiting.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“You can lead an idiot to enlightenment but you can't make him think.”

— Anthony Foster

“Was he, after all, really a bad man doing a brilliant impersonation of an idiot? It was hard to tell. The connections between stupidity…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the truth, then…

— Sherman Alexie