Thomas Campbell Quotes

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.

The losers in life think they have all the answers. They can’t learn because they’re too busy telling everyone what they know.

But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world.

It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

My understanding of religion and science is that they're both arrogant schools of thought, and whether they acknowledge it or not they continually broadcast the idea that they have the world figured out. And what they don't know, they have a theory for which is probably correct. It feels like that shrinks the world, rather than expands it.

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

Infallibility and invincible ignorance are the same thing.

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

I don't always know what I'm talking about, but I know I'm right.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only own one encyclopedia.

The sin of certainty leaves no room for the rest of us.

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.

If you think you're right 80% of the time, you're deluded.