Intelligent man Quote by Nikolai Gogol

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

— Nikolai Gogol

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

— Saadi

“Never test the intelligence of a foolish man.”

— Fahad Basheer

“What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.”

— Idries Shah

“You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Trust my folly then, since it is best for a man truly wise to be thought a fool.”

— Aeschylus

“Better foolish and honest than clever and false.”

— Paula Brackston

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

— Jonathan Tropper

“Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.”

— Thomas Fuller

“Your average man is not intelligent enough not to fake being intelligent enough.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky