David Krumholtz Quotes

I'm not an intellectual in any sense, I have constraints of erudition. I'm not able to deal with things outside my ken, and that makes me irritable. I'm irritable about the fact that I never went to university.

Can you predict the future with absolute certainty? Your answer must be no. You have two options: You can either decide to accept yourself as an imperfect human being with limited knowledge and realize that you will at times make mistakes, or you can hate yourself for it.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

I don't know about a lot of things. I read a lot, but a lot of it just passes through me. I don't retain much. I am kind of dumb that way. Or maybe 'I am a simple man,' is a better way to say it.

Beware of the person of one book.

That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.

Try to remember that decisions are made by individual, fallible personalities, not gods. It's hard. I know.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

I'm just smart enough to know what it is I don't know and try to learn as I go along and accept that you're going to make mistakes, and there are going to be things that are not going to be perfect.

We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains.

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

Our intelligence is always imperfect.

People don't understand complex issues.

To deprecate human reason by saying that none of us is or can be omniscient is absurd, for it takes an impossible standard as the judge of a possible and real condition. All of our knowledge we get from the exercise of our reason; to say that no man can be God and know everything is to take an irrational standard of evaluation.

One of the great things about education is that it should stop you making mistakes - and I have made a lot of mistakes.

We used to think that you could pay attention to five to nine things at a time. We now know that's not true. That's a crazy overestimate. The conscious mind can attend to about three things at once. Trying to juggle any more than that, and you're going to lose some brainpower.

It takes me a while to absorb things.

I wasn't stupid, or very smart. I didn't finish my education.

I just learn from other people's mistakes.

I just don't like making mistakes.

I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.

How imperfect is all our knowledge!