People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
Nor is the People's Judgment always true: The Most may err as grossly as the Few.
Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.
Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.
You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Since the mass of mankind are too ignorant or too indolent to think seriously, if majorities are right it is by accident.
The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.
When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.
It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity.
Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
Stupid people are ruining America.
Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.
Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.
History is not the Province of the Ladies ... Little Passions and Prejudices, want of information, false information, want of Experience, erroneous Judgment, and frequent partiality are among the Faults.
