David Hume Quotes

The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

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.

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

We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

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

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

They are most deceived that trusteth most in themselves.

Who think themselves most wise are greatest fools

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!

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

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

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

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

Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.

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

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

I'm rarely wrong.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.