Describing Quote by Jean Cocteau

What he is lacking in intelligence, he more than makes up for in stupidity.

— Anonymous

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

— Remy de Gourmont

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source…

— Christoph Martin Wieland

He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may…

— Confucius

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“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

A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.

— Garry Kasparov

“Like most intellectuals he is intensely stupid.”

— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

“There exists much more stupidity in the world than intelligence. Intelligence, however, is intelligence just because the stupidity exists.”

— Dr. Ashok Anand

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I'm going to say something really banal, but intelligence, in itself, is neither valuable nor interesting. Very intelligent people have devoted their lives to…

— Muriel Barbery

God has placed clear limits on Man’s intelligence, but none on his stupidity.

— John Corapi