Joe Rogan Quotes

The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

People ask me a question, I'll give them my opinion. I never claimed to have all the answers.

Some things tend not to work so well for science - things that rely on substantial written contributions by key experts are a case in point - but even there I tend to keep an open mind, because it may just be a case of finding the right formula.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

I want to take the time to think through how I feel and why I feel. I don't want to feign expertise on matters I know nothing about for the purpose of offering someone else my immediate reaction for their consumption.

I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do.

The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

Judge Learned Hand once observed that “the spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not too sure it is right.” If we don’t accept others’ good faith and the limitations of our own expertise—if we are so quick to attack others’ errors that we forget how often we too are wrong—the enterprise of free speech is fraught, and the spirit of liberty of which it is part is at peril.

If somebody tells you that you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you so, buy yourself a saddle.

The biggest piece of advice I have is - listen. Don't jump to the answer or what you think the answer is. The more you listen, the more you learn.

I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

Never take advice, including this.

I'm a big expert in boxing, but in politics I'm a beginner, so I try to use other people's experience. I read books; I'm not afraid to ask for advice.

Because of the Internet, we're all such authorities on every subject and can chat about all sorts of things. But when push comes to shove, when our ideas are put to the test, that's when we find out who we really are.

I know, when I was growing up, a lot of the views I was listening to, it was a worldview that was not helpful. The world even sold me a false idea of what the good life was, and I wish that people would have helped me to think better about how to interact with that worldview.

I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to the emotional core of me.

I built a career out of knowing what I don't know.

Whatever work I do, I tend to do it fast and accurately, but when it comes to fields that I don't know about well, I prefer to just listen.

The first rule of holes is when you're in one, stop digging. When you're in three, bring a lot of shovels.