Chuck Klosterman Quotes

A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.

I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.

The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number.

Yeah, yeah. I, I don't think I'm always right. But I don't think young people are always right, either.

There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

No one is always right.

People have opinions but no knowledge.

All men are fallible; no man can be justified in setting up his judgment as a standard for others. We have no infallible judge of controversies; each man in his own apprehension is right in his decisions; and we can find no satisfactory mode of adjusting their jarring pretensions.

You'd better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so.

To exercise ignorance, racist prejudice, a love of power and total disregard for factual accuracy, one has to inhabit a world where everything can mean anything and nothing is certain.

We need to remember we're always a lot more wrong than we think.

It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything.

Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.

The clear and perfect truth no man has seen, nor will there be anyone who knows about the gods and what I say about all things...; for, however perfect what he says may be, yet he does not know it; all things are matters of opinion.

That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false.

No matter what I say, honestly, people would only judge me the way they want to.

When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.