Just 2 aphorisms by Bukowski

"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."

(There are two older versions of that thought, by Yeats and Bertrand Russell.)

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”

The second sentence here is important. (Of course an artist is often an intellectual too.)

No, I cannot say that Bukowski is one of my favorite thinkers, but.