Bill Burr Quotes

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

Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness.

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

You have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. And I don't mind if you're not scientifically literate, but just admit that to yourself, so that you'll know, and perhaps you can take a first step to try to eradicate that.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

It is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

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

I thought I knew it all. Again, I knew absolutely nothing.

Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart.

Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.

If you think you know it all, you are missing something.

I don't know enough to be incompetent.

Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.

Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.

the more I live, the more I regret how little i know

How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain.

A whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the time, about basically everything: about our political and intellectual convictions, our religious and moral beliefs, our assessments of other people, our memories, our grasp of facts. As absurd as it sounds when we stop to think about it, our steady state seems to be one of unconsciously assuming that we are very close to omniscient.

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.

Although I am very interested in the subject of human misjudgment - and lord knows I've created a good bit of it - I don't think I've created my full statistical share, and I think that one of the reasons was I tried to do something about this terrible ignorance I left the Harvard Law School with.

After Stand By Me came out, people were telling me, 'You're so good,' 'You're going to be a star,' and things like that. You can't think about it. If you take it the wrong way, you can really get high on yourself. People get so lost when that happens to them. They may think they have everything under control, but everything is really out of control. Their lives are totally in pieces.

The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do.

The worst, the most difficult thing I think is that the more you become intrigued by science and the information is out there, the more you are aware of the paucity of your own knowledge.

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.