Dean Devlin Quotes

I was not very wise to the ways of the world and did not realize this was wrong.

They're free because they don't know any, better. So they can just run around and do whatever, and do whatever, and most of the time they don't get caught.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

All the Khmer leaders and nobles, all the district chiefs and all the common people are ignorant, stupid, foolish and gullible. They have no idea what is true and what is false.

Even when you are experienced, sometimes mistakes happen.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.

As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking. ... I am tempted to believe that much of the mischief thus laid at the door of that poor unknown quantity Thinking is really due to its ubiquitous twin-brother Talking.

I bet this is a brothel," she whispered to Gendry. "You don't even know what a brothel is." "I do so," she insisted. "It's like an inn, with girls.

Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.

...and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.

Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.

I guess ignorance is bliss -- when I do interviews people always say, "Aren't you upset that people make fun of you?" and I'm like, "Are they making fun of me?" I guess I just don't get it.