“Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.”

— Holbrook Jackson

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)

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British journalist 1874–1948

Harry Secombe (1921–2001) British entertainer

“M.... used to warn me that I had one grave disability: I couldn't suffer fools—and their predominance—gladly. He was right and I realized that in society a fool had one great advantage: he was among his peers.”

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

“Don’t flaunt your ignorance or try to insult me. I don’t suffer fools gladly and insults irritate me”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“The hopes of the right-minded may be realized, those of fools are impossible.”

Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus

“I knew it long ago: I’m a compulsive teacher, but I can’t teach. The godawful state of today’s education system isn’t what’s stopping me. I lack at least two of the essential qualifications.
I cannot “suffer fools gladly.””

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)