Zsa Zsa Gabor Quotes

As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

[John Larroquette] is one of the smartest men I've ever met. He's very cerebral and book-smart. He would say things and I'd have to go look them up, thinking, "That can't be true!" And they'd be true.

I know what I'm doing. And I even know when I don't know what I'm doing. Then there are people who don't want to know that you know what you're doing.

I think it's so completely bizarre and arrogant for anyone to ever think that they could lose their innocence, because that implies that they have some sense, some idea of what's going on, and no one has any idea what's going on.

There's an expression in Yiddish, which is "der gelernte naar" - a "learned fool." You can know a great deal, you can have a Ph.D., and you can still be a total idiot.

Not seeing is half-believing.

Stupid — well, there are so many kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

I accept the fact I am an unregenerate egghead.

Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious To have mistrusted her.

Thinking man's crumpet? Well, it's more flattering than being a lobotomised man's crumpet, I suppose.

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?

Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

If people are speaking about something passionately and if they have a level of intelligence about it and if they're sufficiently informed, it's going to be like a magnet to people.

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.

Smart people understand that there is no such thing as paranoia. It is just another mask for ignorance.