Anne Sullivan Quotes

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

It is known that wildfires behave unpredictably - this is fundamental - but it is my experience that humans in the presence of wildfire are also likely to behave in aberrant and unpredictable ways.

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

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

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

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off.

His brows rose. “And how is it that you have come to be such an expert on scrapes and bruises?” “I’m a governess,” she said. Because really, that ought to be explanation enough.

It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head, there should still be found men, who object to the new constitution for deviating from a principle which has been found the bane of the old.

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

Don't take advice from single people. No shade to everybody in here that's single, but I say that from one point, being the single girl that just knew it all. In the long run, I had to learn. I had to be able to give that chance.

The one thread that was most surprising and most consistent was the lack of fear that people felt at the worst moment. They felt a lot of fear in early stages, when they're just realizing what's happening. But then things really seemed to be at their peak of terror, the fear went away. You can imagine why that's useful. At that moment your brain needs to focus all its attention on surviving, so people will feel a sense of calm as their brain tries to sort out a plan.

We give nothing so freely as advice.

Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.

Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

He who has failed three times sets up as an instructor.

What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs.

The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.

Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.