Andrew Lang Quotes

Self delusion is not a good basis for making important policy.

Stupidity trumps Machiavelli almost every time when you are looking for an explanation.

There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable.

Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.

Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.

When you're 20, we all make stupid and impulsive decisions.

I'm not being really intelligent in my film choices; I'm just landing the opportunity when it comes.

People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

Sometimes you get what you want not because it's right or fair or even smart, but because you just don't know any better.

If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

If you think something's stupid, it probably is.

It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen.

Only fools answer hypothetical questions.

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Human stupidity is international.

All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

Inaccurate analysis produces faulty insights and bad decisions - which lead to losing a tremendous amount of money.

Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees.

Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.