Intelligence-Unintelligence

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. (Oscar Wilde)

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny. (Eric Hoffer)

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad. (Oliver Wendell)

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. (Martin Luther King)

All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform. (George Jean Nathan)

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. (Aeschylus)

The bold are helpless without cleverness. (Euripides)

Here's a good rule of thumb: too clever is dumb. (Ogden Nash)

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)

The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. (F Scott Fitzgerald)

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations. (André Gide)

Intelligence is silence, truth being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this. (Ned Rorem)