David Brin Quotes

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

Every innovation is misguidance, even if the people see it as something good.

Without any physical, chemical, and biological fundamentals, and with equally poor understanding of basic economic forces, it is no wonder that people will believe anything.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

The biggest misconception people have about me is that I'm stupid.

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

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

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

I don't want any gimmicks. The fact that people think that Whack is a gimmick is so crazy.

People will hear one thing and just run with it.

There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

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

...a truth you don't understand is more dangerous than a lie.

People are just dumb. They misunderstand.

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

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