Garry Winogrand Quotes

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment.

The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.

I feel like people didn't understand where I was about to go. And a lot of people still don't.

The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

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

Some story appears in some newspaper that says that somebody said X, Y, and Z, and a customer says, I don't understand what they're talking about - we're running that product, we've been using it for five years, what are they talking about?

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.

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

No one who lives in error is free.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

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

I'm not sure exactly what Victor told Dr. Goldman, but I don't think he fully knew what was going on... I think he was really oblivious. I don't think he knew.

The public are not stupid.

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

People don't understand complex issues.

Those who use 'Correlation is not the same as causation' as a magic incantation to dismiss all fact-using professions are fools holding a lit match in one hand and an open gas can in the other, screaming, 'One has nothing to do with the other!'

People are stupid, what can I say. They don't know who's a real fighter or not.