John Cleese Quotes

In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows.

...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you're a genius.

Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.

When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.

To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

I.Q. deficiency. There are some people who are an order of fries short of a Happy Meal, and what is often a characteristic about every one of these people is that they don't know it. They have no idea how incompetent or stupid they are. It's the exact opposite. They have the loftiest, highest self-image.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.

Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how.

You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

Being both stupid and ignorant is an accomplishment.

I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

Folly always knows the answer.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.

Stupid is a great force in human affairs.

Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory.

Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance.

The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.