Romain Duris Quotes

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

People keep telling us, that they didn't know when they were booking tickets for it, but afterwards they say that they've had no sense that they were watching an old fashioned play.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

Then I got the offer to play Buck Rogers, but I turned it down thinking it was a cartoon character. Well I was wrong, it wasn't at all. So I read the script and decided I liked the character, it had a good concept.

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

I was walking in the park and this guy waved at me. Then he said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else.' I said, 'I am.'

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

If you hear the question wrong, you will answer wrong.

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

The public is too damned dumb to understand.

Amusingly, Christopher Columbus totally bungled ... by relying on subsequent less-accurate calculations and confusing Arabic miles with Italian miles, concluding that he needed to sail only 3,700 km to reach the Orient when the true value was 19,600 km. He clearly wouldn’t have gotten his trip funded if he’d done his math right, and he clearly wouldn’t have survived if America hadn’t existed, so sometimes being lucky is more important than being right.

I think the most fundamental error we make is mistaking a noisy, anomalous event for the norm. This happens all the time - in the stock market, in reports of crime and natural disaster, etc. The fact is that big, noisy, anomalous events catch our attention because they're anomalous, which isn't a problem in and of itself.

A misconception that exists in the eyes of the general reading population is that authors make truckloads of money.

I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don't know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.

I often meet people who say, 'I thought you were dead.'

Like a real dumb idiot, I believed that to avoid a grenade that drops in the water, you could just jump in the water, and you'd be fine.

What you think you know versus what you actually learn.

One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language

You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.

The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.

Up until I think eighth grade - when I found out in front of a roomful of people - I believed that England and Great Britain were two entirely different places. Like I didn't know that England was a part of Great Britain. I thought they were completely separate in every way.

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives