James Haskell Quotes

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

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

That is just the way it is with some people. They will get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

Dumb people criticize something they do not understand.

Sadly, there are a lot of ignorant people that have access to a microphone.

If I've learned anything from social media, it's truly that the most irrelevant people always say the most absurd stuff.

I think some people don't even know what they're talking about, and they just start talking with an opinion, not even asking questions.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

It's a fairly common phenomenon of London life - people having fully developed critiques of books they haven't read and films they haven't seen. I'd probably include myself in that.

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.

People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.

Every person is a fool in somebody’s opinion.

The absolute basis of all prejudice is ignorance and generalization.

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

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

I think as in so many cases, the people who criticize, do so without a complete knowledge of the facts.

It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t want to do anything. Just let them talk.

The public is too damned dumb to understand.