John Ruskin Quotes

Incompetence is a better explanation than conspiracy in most human activity.

Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.

No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.

The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.

Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

Our humanity has been compromised by those who use Gestapo tactics in our war. The longer we stand idly by while they do so, the more we resemble those 'good Germans' who professed ignorance of their own Gestapo.

I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don't have any real knowledge.

My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him.

Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.

You couldn't shoot a fart out of your own ass!

As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by ignorance, perverse incentives, incompetence and are self-serving.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

To consider mankind other than brethren...plainly supposes a darkness of understanding.

The worker who knows the cause of his misery, who understands the make-up of our iniquitous social and industrial system can do more for himself and his kind than Christ and the followers of Christ have ever done for humanity; certainly more than meek patience, ignorance, and submission have done.

Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir.

Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill.

He [Barak Obama]'s a guy from Chicago. He doesn't know what the hell to do. He's got a big pipe with a hole in it.

In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.

She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.

We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground.