Misguided Thinking Quotes

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

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

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

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a source that would never run out.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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

You'd better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so.

It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

Sadly, there are a lot of ignorant people that have access to a microphone.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

It is sheer straight waste of life through dogged stupidity.

Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are real places. Give no quarter to that thought, whether it threatens you with fear, or tempts you with hopes. For this is Superstition and all who believe it will come in the end to the swamps, to the south and the jungles, to the far south. Part of the same error is to think that the Landlord is a real man.

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

It does no good to believe in what does not exist to the point one cannot focus on what is real. That would be the greatest tragedy of any 'conspiracy.'

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.

Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.