Jools Holland Quotes

I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.

Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.

Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting.

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

People can tell if you don't know what you're talking about.

Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly.

Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.

For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.

I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.

Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.

Affected simplicity is an elegant imposture.

I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don't have any real knowledge.

The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.

I know what I'm doing. And I even know when I don't know what I'm doing. Then there are people who don't want to know that you know what you're doing.

Error is worse than ignorance.

What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.

Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.

Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto

That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.

Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.

A dogmatic tone is generally inspired by abysmal ignorance. The man who knows nothing thinks he is informing others of something which he has that moment learnt; the man who knows a great deal can scarcely believe that people are ignorant of what he is telling them, and speaks more diffidently.