Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Be straight with yourself just to maybe save a few more people from being stupid and being ignorant.

...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you're a genius.

There are things that we know, and there are things that we don't know. Then there are the things that we don't even know that we don't know. Those are the things that are the hardest.

Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

I think the problem with people like this is that they are so stupid that they have no idea how stupid they are.

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?

Initially, he worried that he might be going crazy. But then he decided if you felt you were crazy you weren't really crazy because he had heard somewhere that crazy people didn't know they were insane.

You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.

Smart people understand that there is no such thing as paranoia. It is just another mask for ignorance.

The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.

It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.

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.

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.