It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I've never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn't me at all.
A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.
Nothing hath an uglier Look to us than Reason, when it is not of our side.
1st Marquees of Halifax
Arguments that prove too much prove nothing.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
There is a danger in believing your own hype.
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
But some people act like they think I live in the jungle someplace.
You'd better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so.
I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.
People have even said my father paid Aditya Chopra to make a film for me. It's illogical. People say what they have to say.
The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!
We think; therefore, we often talk rubbish.
Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity.
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston
People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair.
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
Many of us develop different flavors of cynicism that we work hard to resist because they can be lazy mental shortcuts.
We leap to conclusions and remember those conclusions as fact. We react on our own prejudices but don't always recognize them as such.
The capacity of this body for self delusion appears to this Senator to be unlimited.
