Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

People think that because of my nature and the tone of my voice that I'm stupid, and that's hard.

I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds.

Don't make an opinion on me if you don't know nothin' about me.

People just assume, over the years, that soccer players are not too intelligent. As with most assumptions, they're wrong.

Assuming audiences to be dumb, that's a big fallacy.

A lot of people judge others too quickly without actually knowing the full facts or the actual real person.

The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.

Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot be taken or are not allowed.

They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm; they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination.

There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge.

A lot of people say they are dyslexic; some have to realize that they are just stupid.

Some people think you have more privileges than other teenagers because of what you do, and that's not it at all. It's actually the opposite.

Never judge a cover by its book.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

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

She dumb.” I sigh. “But she ain’t stupid.

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said Lamb. "Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?"

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

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

In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I’m stealing, every man thinks I’m a prostitute or a lesbian, every woman thinks I’m a lesbian or arrogant, and every child and animal sees the real me and it is evil.

Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!