Bill Maher Quotes

You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about.

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand.

We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.

If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.

If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

There are a lot of people in the animal rights movement who can be very passionate and aggressive, and I applaud people's passion, but when people are judgmental and aggressive, all you end up doing is getting other people to turn away in irritation. To change people's minds, you have to respect the people you're talking to.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

I am a huge fan of proselytizing. I am a huge fan of speaking your mind. The only way we can share the universe... is by talking very strongly about what we believe.

You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

We need a new model: If you can't explain it, you can't sell it.

Ignorance breeds fear.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me understand something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

You cannot expect people to react to information they don't have.

You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

What you say in defense of … ideas matters, and what people hear matters even more.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

A man hears only what he understands.

When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.