History Quotes / KnownothingKnowItAll

->"If someone has 'been around the block a few times', it may mean they didn't have enough sense to just give up and park in the lot."

->Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

->"There are few people in England, I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient."

->[[LittleKnownFact Well ya see, Norm, it’s like this]]... A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That’s why you always [[LiquidCourage feel smarter after a few beers.]]

'''Mulder:''' Yours truly. ''(silence)'' Hello? Scully? You there?\\
'''Scully:''' Mulder, when was the last time '''you''' went on a date?\\

->The man that knows something knows that he knows nothing at all.

->Talk like a big business tycoon\\

Let me tan your hide!

->You can't call yourself a 'think tank' if all your ideas are stupid.

->Music/PaulaAbdul judging a singing contest is like Creator/ChristopherReeve judging a dance contest.

->What's [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Dubya]] doing now? He's a motivational speaker... It's kind of like having Creator/LindsayLohan as a guidance counselor.

->There's a kind of notion that everyone's opinion is equally valid. My arse! A bloke who's been a professor of dentistry for 40 years doesn't have a debate with some idiot who [[BackAlleyDoctor removes his teeth with string and a door!]]

->Too many people have opinions on things they know nothing about. And the more ignorant they are, [[IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance the more opinions they have.]]

->Those who think they are all-knowing know nothing of what they do not.

->You can see that insecurity play out on pregame shows week after week in the form of [[TheUnsmile strained laughter]]... These are all men who must know they're wasting your time, and must therefore inflate themselves on the air in order to hide that fact. Take it from someone who knows: The more that you suspect you're a fraud, the louder you'll talk.

->Tsoukalos graduated from Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York in 1998 with a degree in communication and sports information. That makes him uniquely qualified to speak on matters concerning the movie ''Film/JerryMaguire'', but not so much regarding anything else.

->Jeffrey Lyons is the most reliable movie critic in the world... if you [[BaitAndSwitchComment do the opposite of everything he says]]. He is a man so impressively wrong that you would do well to stay as far away from his advice as you can.

->You see, [[Series/TheView this shrieking TV woman]] began by saying that she is not a doctor or medical professional of any kind, which already had me skeptical about whatever she was going to shout next. But then she delivered her position on why parents [[ScienceIsBad shouldn’t vaccinate their children]] in a much louder voice than my doctor, and it put some serious doubts in my mind. Would someone less sure of herself be able to be quite so loud? It seems unlikely.

->'Trump University' is proof that you can't [[LogicBomb make words explode]], no matter how violently you combine opposites. UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump can lose money in a casino [[EpicFail when he owns it]]. He doesn't learn from his mistakes, [[NeverMyFault he bankrupts or sues them]], and the only thing he can teach people is that they shouldn't have given him their money, a lesson his educational dialysis facility taught well.

->Nothing is more insufferable than a blithering idiot who thinks he's the smartest motherfucker in the room, and this [terrible movie] is the celuloid manefestation of exactly that pretentious asshole.

->I don't need any serving suggestions from ''you'', you barbecue-wrecking, ''[[TropeNamer know-nothing know-it-all]]''!

->Creating scientifical inventions is easy! All you do is slap a bunch of junk together and cross your fingers!

->You know it's time to sell when shoeshine boys give you stock tips. [[Main/TheGreatDepression This bull market is over.]]

->Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

->To the left of the fireplace, a chiaroscuro Neapolitan painting by Viola. "''Typical of early eighteenth-century South German painting''," boomed the journalist Joe Alsop. As Joe was an expert on everything, he was generally wrong on everything, particularly on his subject, politics. For thirty years [[RedScare we were losing to Communism]], according to Joe.

->Somebody's gotta stand up to experts.

->In saying I have 'no training' he has lied. I have a Cambridge degree in [[ADegreeInUseless classical architecture.]]

->He's the worst kind of idiot: the idiot who thinks he's a genius.

->The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

->"Well, if, like me, you voted for Brexit, you probably know by now that you're stupid ignorant xenophobic racist bigoted moron who shouldn't be allowed to vote at all. You can read all about it in The Guardian. Yes, apparently, we were misled into voting the wrong way because we're too thick to understand what we were doing, and because we are driven primarily by fear, prejudice and hate. [[LampshadeHanging Isn't it nice to know who your friends are?]] They keep telling us too, that if we voted for Brexit, or indeed [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump Trump]] in [[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates America]], we are more likely to be uneducated, as if that's supposed to make us intellectually less capable, and therefore somehow less worthy of a vote, than the educated people, many of whom only go to university because they're unemployable. And when they come out with their [[ADegreeInUseless useless arts or humanities degree that nobody takes seriously]] because every bloody fool has one, [[RealityEnsues they're still unemployable, only now they're lumbered with a mountain of debt]]. [[WhatAnIdiot Yeah, real geniuses.]] Imagine paying thousands for a degree (if you'll pardon the expression) in cultural studies or gender studies [[IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance and being dumb enough to think you're educated]]. And then to think that that somehow allows you to talk down to people who weren't stupid enough to squander their time and money. How moronic would you have to be? But even if you've got a proper degree in something real like science, it doesn't mean that your political views are more valid than anyone else's or that you have superior political insight or knowledge, and if you think it does, well, then you are dangerous."
-->-- '''Pat Condell'''

->''"Well, if, like me, you voted for Brexit, you probably know by now that you're stupid ignorant xenophobic racist bigoted moron who shouldn't be allowed to vote at all. You can read all about it in The Guardian. Yes, apparently, we were misled into voting the wrong way because we're too thick to understand what we were doing, and because we are driven primarily by fear, prejudice and hate. [[LampshadeHanging Isn't it nice to know who your friends are?]] They keep telling us too, that if we voted for Brexit, or indeed [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump Trump]] in [[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates America]], we are more likely to be uneducated, as if that's supposed to make us intellectually less capable, and therefore somehow less worthy of a vote, than the educated people, many of whom only go to university because they're unemployable. And when they come out with their [[ADegreeInUseless useless arts or humanities degree that nobody takes seriously]] because every bloody fool has one, [[RealityEnsues they're still unemployable, only now they're lumbered with a mountain of debt]]. [[WhatAnIdiot Yeah, real geniuses.]] Imagine paying thousands for a degree (if you'll pardon the expression) in cultural studies or gender studies [[IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance and being dumb enough to think you're educated]]. And then to think that that somehow allows you to talk down to people who weren't stupid enough to squander their time and money. How moronic would you have to be? But even if you've got a proper degree in something real like science, it doesn't mean that your political views are more valid than anyone elses or that you have superior political insight or knowledge, and if you think it does, well, then you are dangerous."''

-->-- Creator/MichaelJNelson, ''Mike Nelson's Mind Over Matters''

--> '''[[Creator/BobChipman Bob Chipman aka Moviebob]]''', ''Film/FantaticFour2015'' review

-->--'''Bill Maher''' on the Heritage Foundation

->'Trump University' is proof that you can't [[LogicBomb make words explode]], no matter how violently you combine opposites. Creator/DonaldTrump can lose money in a casino [[EpicFail when he owns it]]. He doesn't learn from his mistakes, [[NeverMyFault he bankrupts or sues them]], and the only thing he can teach people is that they shouldn't have given him their money, a lesson his educational dialysis facility taught well.

--> '''[[Creator/BobChipman Bob Chipman aka Moviebob]]''', Fantatic Four (2015) review

-->-- '''Homer Simpson''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "Lisa the Vegetarian"

--> Bob Chipman aka Moviebob, Fantatic Four (2015) review

->Nothing is more insufferable than a blithering idiot who thinks he's the smartest motherfucker in the room, and this [terrible movie] is the celuloid manefestation of exactly that pretentious asshole.
--> Bob Chipman aka Moviebob, Fantatic Four (2015) review

[[folder:Live-action TV]]

->You know it's time to sell when shoeshine boys give you stock tips. [[UsefulNotes/TheGreatDepression This bull market is over.]]

-->-- '''Zenyatta''', ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}''

-->-- '''Zenyatta''', ''VideoGame/Overwatch''

-->--'''Dara Ó Briain''', "Respectful Insolence"

-->--'''Thomas Hildern''', ''Videogame/FalloutNewVegas''

->I don't need any serving suggestions, you barbecue-wrecking, ''[[TropeNamer know-nothing know-it-all]]''!

-->--'''''Wiki/RationalWiki''''' on [=UFOlogist=] [[TheHistoryChannel Giorgios Tsoukalos]]

->Jeffrey Lyons is the most reliable movie critic in the world…if you [[BaitAndSwitchComment do the opposite of everything he says]]. He is a man so impressively wrong that you would do well to stay as far away from his advice as you can.

-->--'''''TheOnion''''', [[http://www.clickhole.com/blogpost/my-doctor-told-me-i-should-vaccinate-my-children-t-653 "My Doctor Told Me I Should Vaccinate My Children, But Then Someone Much Louder Than My Doctor Told Me I Shouldn’t"]]

[[folder:real Life]]

->'''Homer:''' I don't need any serving suggestions, you barbecue-wrecking, ''[[TropeNamer know-nothing know-it-all]]''!
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "Lisa the Vegetarian"