Pietro Metastasio Quotes

Sometimes we misinterpret, sometimes we misunderstand, sometimes we make mistakes.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

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

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

The mistake we make with many people is that we assume that we have the model. It is a type of condescension.

It is the habit of mankind to mistake familiarity for accurate knowledge.

… fear false knowledge

People don't understand complex issues.

Judging people you don't know for things you don't understand is just really stupid.

You didn't understand or care to know, you get your education from your lovers.

Error is worse than ignorance.

Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.

The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

The critics. When they're right, they're right for the wrong reasons. And they're usually wrong.

Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.

People are afraid of things they don't understand.

The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.

I made out with a homeless guy by accident. I had no idea -- he was really tan, he had no shoes on. I just thought it was, like, his thang, you know? I was like, 'He's probably in a band.

To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.

Theoretically, I grant you, there is no possibility of error in necessary reasoning. But to speak thus "theoretically," is to uselanguage in a Pickwickian sense. In practice, and in fact, mathematics is not exempt from that liability to error that affects everything that man does.

We are usually mistaken in esteeming men too much; rarely in esteeming them too little.