Tuesday 16 August 2005

Fewtril #17

A fool believes that an extraordinary intellect says extraordinary things, and thus one has only to wait a short time before he says something extraordinarily stupid.

1 comment:

dearieme said...

Given the number of extraordinary intellects who, in the twentieth century, subscribed to Nazism, Bolshevism and other noxious socialist creeds, might not the fool have a point? Unless I am guilty of a contradiction in terms: if the number was high, perhaps they were by definition not extraordinary at all?