Charles Darwin Quotes

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.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

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

Ask the young. They know everything.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that are not so

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone

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

I can always tell how stupid someone is by how certain they are about what they're saying.

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.

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

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.

The most ignorant are the boldest conjecturers.

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

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

For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.

It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

I think I know it all, relatively speaking.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.