Gil Kane Quotes

Success had gone to my head and I made stupid decisions.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

I was the network president. I thought I knew everything.

I'm still stupid. I still do what I'm not supposed to do. Are you serious? I'm Jake 'The Snake,' man. I never claimed to be the sharpest knife in the drawer.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.

When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a source that would never run out.

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.

You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

I'm just stupid and too headstrong.

a person who is arrogant is also ignorant!

That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.

To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

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

We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.

They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

But then, like George Michael in a men's bathroom, I got cocky.

No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds - and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own.