Wendell Berry Quotes

Who think themselves most wise are greatest fools

Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.

There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.

Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him.

To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.

Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

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.

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

People just see what they want to see.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

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

Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone

I know that you don't know, but you don't know that you don't know! By that I mean there are three reasons why individuals and businesses fail: 1. Arrogance 2. Arrogance 3. Arrogance.

Pride... limits or stops progression. The proud are not easily taught. They won't change their minds to accept truths, because to do so implies they have been wrong.

There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.