David Bailey Quotes

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

I'm not educated; I'd be a damn fool if I was (educated)!

I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have deprived me surely of those exquisite moments of mental flatulence which every now and then inflate the cerebral vacuum with a delicious sense of latent possibilities-of stretching oneself to cosmic limits, and who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

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

And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

I told you, the dopes are gonna inherit the earth anyway.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

I'm a little bit backward. I didn't really go to school.

Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.

I think there is something to be said for what you can do when you don't know what you aren't supposed to be able to do.

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

When I was supposed to go to a certified kindergarten that's supposed to teach you actual things like how to read, I went to a daycare that my parents thought was a kindergarten. I was Crayola-ing inside the lines with no fundamental education at all. So I walked into the first grade with no formal education at all.

Some people criticize North Koreans and ask, 'Are they stupid? How can they believe those ridiculous things?' But I say, It doesn't matter if you're smart: if you were born in North Korea, you would be exactly like us. We don't know what freedom is. We have never enjoyed it.

My mom and dad taught me nothing but ABCs.

I never took a political science course.

The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation.