Martin Freeman Quotes

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

No one, however smart, however well educated … is the suppository of all wisdom.

Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

Always, as a child, I would go around the house, and if I found a word that I didn't know the meaning of, I would write it down and ask my parents to define it and try to memorise it.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

I am a firm believer that if you can explain it to a kid, you're on the right track.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.