“Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.”
Holbrook Jackson (1874–1948) British journalist
Platitudes in the Making http://books.google.com/books?id=r8trG_FywFAC&q=%22Suffer+fools+gladly+they+may+be+right%22&pg=PA20#v=onepage (1911)
“I suffer fools gladly because I am one of them.”
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Nicolas Chamfort (1741–1794) French writer
Reflections
Original: (fr) M... me disait que j'avais un grand malheur: c'était de ne pas me faire à la toute-puissance des sots. Il avait raison, et j'ai vu qu'en entrant dans le monde, un sot avait de grands avantages, celui de se trouver parmi ses pairs. C'est comme frère Lourdis dans le temple de la Sottise.
Original: (fr) Maximes et Pensées, #197
“Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses.”
Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) Dutch computer scientist
Dijkstra (1978) The pragmatic engineer versus the scientific designer http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD690.html (EWD 690). <br class="br">1970s
Larry Niven book N-Space
The smartest of my pupils would get all my attention, and the rest would have to fend for themselves. And I can’t handle being interrupted.
Writing is the answer. Whatever I have to teach, my students will select themselves by buying the book. And nobody interrupts a printed page.
Foreword: Playgrounds for the Mind (pp. 26-27)
Short fiction, N-Space (1990)
“I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.”
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
recollection http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F2113&viewtype=text&pageseq=7 by E. Ray Lankester, from his essay "Charles Robert Darwin" in C.D. Warner, editor, Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern (R.S. Peale & J.A. Hill, New York, 1896) volume 2, pages 4835-4393, at page 4391 <br class="br">Other letters, notebooks, journal articles, recollected statements
“If there is one who’s not free, then I am not free. If there is one who suffers, then I suffer.”
Ai Weiwei (1957) Chinese concept artist
Ai Weiwei Twitter feed: @AiWW (6:38 p.m. August 23, 2009)
2000-09, Twitter feeds, 2009
“I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools. I like a twist of meaning. I endure.”
E. Lockhart book We Were Liars
Variant: I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.
Source: We Were Liars
Kingman Brewster, Jr. (1919–1988) American diplomat
The Enduring American Press (October 1964) edited by The Hartford Courant