Claudia Gray Quotes

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand.

Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.

That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.

There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; and the bullshit you just think you know but really don't.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

When people don't get enough information, they make it up.

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

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.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

People are so quick to judge and make decisions for themselves about situations they know absolutely nothing about.

The public's not stupid.

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

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

Ignorance breeds fear.

The public are not stupid.

I get angry when I think that people are blatantly incorrect on matters of fact.

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

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

You'd better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so.

There's certain things that people hold as truth but that are not always necessarily true.