Sean Illing Quotes

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Danger breeds best on too much confidence.

It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.

It is foolish for anyone to be complacent.

Ignorance and confidence are constant companions

It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

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

All the Khmer leaders and nobles, all the district chiefs and all the common people are ignorant, stupid, foolish and gullible. They have no idea what is true and what is false.

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

I've been asked a lot lately what message is there in the Lusitania for the modern day. To be honest, not much. Except that maybe hubris and overconfidence are always dangerous things.

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

I just rely on natural talent," said Adrian, strolling up to the start of the Dragon's Lair. "When you have such a wealth of it to draw from, the danger comes from having too much.

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

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.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent.