Jon Gruden Quotes

The most abysmal advise ever given by the ignorant to the stupid.

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

People are so quick to judge and make decisions for themselves about situations they know absolutely nothing about.

The less you know, the more you believe.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

There are not a hundred people in America who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions of people who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church — which is, of course, quite a different thing.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

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

That is just the way it is with some people. They will get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.

The public is too damned dumb to understand.

There is a cost to ignorance and the hate.

There are some people in politics and in the press who can't be confused by the facts. They just will not live in an evidence-based world. And that's regrettable.