George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.

I think as in so many cases, the people who criticize, do so without a complete knowledge of the facts.

People are stupid, what can I say. They don't know who's a real fighter or not.

There will always be people who will criticise you without knowing the facts.

I don't like Larry Merchant. He thinks he knows everything about a sport that he was never in. He walks around with papers and studies what he writes, he just pisses you off.

That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.

The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized.

The common thread of my comedy shows is conflict and, I guess, the frustration of people who either argue with you or just say stuff which is blatantly incorrect, and nobody calls them out on it.

With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

Incompetence is certainty in the absence of expertise. Overconfidence is certainty in the presence of expertise.

A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.

Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.

Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.

I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.

There's no doubt that cable news hosts can say things that the president of the United States shouldn't say, and people can be harsh at you. That doesn't mean you benefit by being harsh back.

Most sportswriters don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.

It's easy to be an educated fool.

Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.

What really bothers me, what gets me mad, is when people don't know the story, but then pretend like they know the story. That's what bothers me. That's what makes me mad.

Up until I think eighth grade - when I found out in front of a roomful of people - I believed that England and Great Britain were two entirely different places. Like I didn't know that England was a part of Great Britain. I thought they were completely separate in every way.

Now go back and meet all those people who you think know everything. Convince yourself that they're right, because we all know everything, it's merely a question of believing.