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[[folder:Literature]]

->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.
-->-- ''{{Creator/Mike Nelson}}'s Mind Over Matters''

->''Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.''
-->--''Literature/TheBible'', [[Literature/BookOfProverbs Proverbs 26:12]]

->''"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."''
-->--'''Lady Catherine''', ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice''

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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]

->'''Martin:''' Do you have any medical training?\\
'''Gavin Dibbs:''' Oh, ''me?'' No, no, no no...But I read the trades, and you pick things up, don't you?\\
'''Martin:''' [[LittleNo No.]]
-->--''Series/DocMartin'', "Preserve the Romance"

->''"[[LittleKnownFacts 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.]]"''
-->--'''Cliff Clavin''', ''Series/{{Cheers}}''

->'''Robert:''' I'll tell you what I've found to be the key to a great marriage...\\
'''Raymond:''' --Says the man who married a stripper, then divorced a stripper, then married a regular person, then hung in there for ''three whole months''.
-->-- ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond''

->'''Mulder:''' He just wants some dating advice.\\
'''Scully:''' From whom?\\
'''Mulder:''' Yours truly. Scully? You there?\\
'''Scully:''' Mulder, when was the last time ''you'' went on a date?\\
'''Mulder:''' I will talk to you later. ''(hangs up)''
-->--''Series/TheXFiles'', "The Rain King"

->'''Harold:''' Welcome to the Experts portion of the show, where we examine those three little words that men find ''so'' hard to say...\\
'''Studio Audience:''' I! DON'T! KNOW!
-->-- Intro to every "The Experts" sketch, ''Series/TheRedGreenShow''

->'''Richie:''' Wait! I know what we need! Music! Of course! What shall we have? ''(...)'' Molière! Molière! He could bash out a tune or two! ''(mistakenly hums a Vivaldi tune)'' ...and the other twiddly bits. He was Scottish, you know?
->'''Eddie:''' Who? Vivaldi?
->'''Richie:''' No, Eddie! I'm talking about composers! Honestly, it's ''football, football, football'' with you, isn't it?!
-->-- ''Series/{{Bottom}}'', ''[[Recap/BottomCulture Culture]]''

-> '''Charlie:''' Look buddy, I know a lot about the law and various other lawyerings, uh, I'm well educated, well versed. I know that situations like this, real-estate wise, they're very complex.\\
'''Lawyer:''' Actually, they're pretty simple. The forms are all standard boilerplate.\\
'''Charlie:''' Okay. [[IsItSomethingYouEat Well we're all hungry. We'll get to our hot-plates soon enough.]] Let's talk about the contract here.\\
'''Lawyer:''' I'm sorry, I forgot. Where did you go to law school again?\\
'''Charlie:''' Well I could ask you that very same question.\\
'''Lawyer:''' I went to Harvard.\\
'''Charlie:''' Ah, mhm.\\
'''Lawyer:''' How about you? Hm? Uh?\\
'''Charlie:''' I'm pleading the fifth, sir.\\
'''Lawyer:''' I'd advise that you do that.\\
'''Charlie:''' And I'll take that advice into cooperation, alright? Now what say you and I go toe-to-toe on bird-law and see how comes out the victor?\\
'''Lawyer:''' You know, I don't think I'm going to do anything close to that and I can see clearly you know nothing about the law. It seems like you have a tenuous grasp of the English language in general.\\
'''Charlie:''' I, uh, well, [[IResembleThatRemark filibuster!]]\\
'''Lawyer:''' Do you.. Do you know what that word means?\\
'''Charlie:''' Ah-yup!\\
'''Lawyer:''' Yeah, whats that mean?\\
'''Charlie:''' uhhhhhhh. AHHHHHHH!!! ''(proceeds to slam through the door)''
-->-- ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia''
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[[folder:Music]]
->''The man that knows something knows that he knows nothing at all.''
-->-- '''Music/ErykahBadu''', "On and On"

->''Talk like a big business tycoon\\
You're just a hot air balloon\\
So no-one gives you a damn\\
You're just an overgrown schoolboy\\
Let me tan your hide''
-->-- '''Music/{{Queen}}''', "Death on Two Legs"
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[[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]]

->''"You can't call yourself a 'think tank' if all your ideas are stupid."''
-->--'''Creator/BillMaher''' on the Heritage Foundation

->''"Music/PaulaAbdul judging a singing contest is like Creator/ChristopherReeve judging a dance contest."''
-->--'''Creator/ChrisRock''' on ''Series/AmericanIdol''

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

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

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[[folder:Video Games]]

->''"Too many people have opinions on things they know nothing about. And the more ignorant they are, the more opinions they have."''
-->-- '''Thomas Hildern''', ''Videogame/FalloutNewVegas''

->''"Those who think they are all-knowing know nothing of what they do not."''
-->-- '''Zenyatta''' after killing an enemy '''Sombra''', ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}''

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''
-->-- '''Fact Sphere''', ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}''

->''"Mourn not for Crispin, a simpleton's idea of a clever man, and a poor man's idea of a rich one."''
-->-- '''[[GraveHumor Crispin's tombstone]]''', ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII''

->''"How's it taste, idiot!? Man, I'm gonna relish this FOREVER! All those times you acted so high and mighty... Well, guess what? You're not!! Face it! You're just as big a dumbass as the rest of us!!"''
-->-- '''Susie''' upon solving a puzzle that '''Berdly''' couldn't figure out, ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}''

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[[folder:Webcomics]]
->'''Peasant''': We should improve society somewhat.\\
'''Mister Gotcha''': Yet you participate in society. Curious! I am very intelligent.
-->--''"[[https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha Mister Gotcha]]"''
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[[folder:Web Original]]

->''You can see that insecurity play out on pregame shows week after week in the form of 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.''
-->--'''[[http://deadspin.com/5981428/it-took-a-blackout-to-show-you-how-truly-useless-nfl-broadcasters-are Drew Magary]]''', "It Took A Blackout To Show You How Truly Useless NFL Broadcasters Are"

->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.
-->--''Rational Wiki'' on [=UFOlogist=] [[Creator/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.''
-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Miles Antwiler]]''' [[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/miracle-at-st-anna-spike-lee-2008/ on]] ''Miracle at St. Anna''

->''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 [[Creator/JennyMcCarthy 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.''
-->--''Website/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"]]

->"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 when he owns it. He doesn't learn from his mistakes, 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.
-->--''{{Website/Cracked}}'', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reasons-why-donald-trump-biggest-troll-alive/#ixzz2zTxjuuCo "5 Reasons Why Donald Trump Is the Biggest Troll Alive"]]

->''For weeks now, Nate Silver has been morphing before our eyes into exactly the kind of bloviator he made his name mocking... offering up a mix of bad policy ideas (elite colleges should admit as many legacy students and children of rich donors as they want) and sanctimonious tone policing with the unyielding, over-the-spectacles glare of an imaginary Concerned of Brooklyn Heights.''
-->--'''Aaron Timms''', [[https://newrepublic.com/article/155761/fall-nate-silver "The Fall of Nate Silver"]], ''The New Republic''

->''In the wild, the [=VeghEsther=] typically lurks in the shadows until it sees a less experienced user upon which it can prey. Upon sight, it immediately forces its prey to listen to an incoherent lecture about how a specific ''{{VideoGame/Tales|Series}}'' game works... These lectures generally would be informative and useful if the information were not completely fabricated and backed up by baseless assumptions. To protect oneself, one must block out all it says, which is, unfortunately, a lot. If it does not leave, one should promptly beg it to stop, which it will likely not do. Then, one may either run screaming with one's tail between one's legs, or flame it and risk a warning. Another way is just ignore him completely and focus on the main topic.''
-->--''Namco Tales Wiki''

->''Back when I first started cooking on the internet, there was a self-identified professional chef who used to really love coming at me in the comments - and this is back when I still had a bad habit of indulging that kind of stuff - and anyway, this chef just insisted that salt has this really, really profound effect on the boiling temperature of water for pasta. And I'll never forget what he said. I cited some science indicating that salt doesn't do that much in terms of boil temperature and all that, and he said "I don't care what a scientist tells me. I can see with my own two eyes that [[InsaneTrollLogic when I put the salt in, the water boils harder]]." I put the salt in, and the water goes whoosh; from this, "Chef" deduced that the salt is making the water a lot hotter, and hotter is better. And [[DumbassHasAPoint I kinda felt the guy's frustration]], because here's the problem. Your eyes are really good at telling you whether something is happening; they're not as good at telling you why it's happening.''
-->--'''Adam Ragusea''', ''[[https://youtu.be/QW7r2RHt6tY?t=225 When should you salt pasta water? How much?]]''

->''"it's really interesting that everyone on here who is demonstrably lacking in all actual knowledge of epidemiology, financial markets, or economics has extremely strong opinions on these subjects that they believe with absolute certainty and feel the need to share. fascinating."''
-->-- '''[[https://archive.org/details/Collected_Tweets_and_Retweets_of_JohnWinthrop9_Part_II/1465682531815235591-FFcmfi0WYAY9Ayt.jpg @JohnWinthrop9]]''' on Website/{{Twitter|X}}

->You know, of course, what the most grating and infuriating human behavior is. It is not when another person is simply being unreasonable. It is when that person is constantly insisting that they are Just Being Reasonable, and wondering why you're acting so crazy and irrational, ''while'' they themselves are in fact being extremely goddamn unreasonable. It is not when they are just wrong, but when they top it off by patronizingly explaining your own views to you, purporting to refute them, while not having the faintest understanding of what those views actually are.\\
Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker is that guy. He thinks many people are very unreasonable, and makes sweeping claims about their irrationality and moral imbecility, but often doesn't bother to listen to what they actually say. While insisting for page upon page on the necessity of rationality, he irrationally caricatures and mocks ideas he hasn't tried to understand. Then, when the people who believe those ideas become upset, he sees this as further proof of their emotion-driven thinking, and becomes even more convinced that he is right. It is a pattern displayed by many of those who are critics of "social justice" and the political left. [...] Pinker, however, takes it to an extreme: Nobody has ever tried to look more Reasonable while being so ignorant and condescending.
-->--'''Nathan J. Robinson''', [[https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/05/the-worlds-most-annoying-man "The World's Most Annoying Man"]], ''Current Affairs''

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[[folder:Western Animation]]

->''"I don't need any serving suggestions from ''you'', you barbecue-wrecking, ''[[TropeNamers/TheSimpsons know-nothing know-it-all]]''!"''
-->-- '''Homer Simpson''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E5LisaTheVegetarian Lisa the Vegetarian]]"

->''"Creating scientifical inventions is easy! All you do is slap a bunch of junk together and cross your fingers!"''
-->-- '''Timon''', ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'', "Pig-Malion"

->''I have approximate knowledge of many things.''
-->--The '''Demon Cat''', ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''

->'''[[TheSmartGuy Sandy:]]''' Astrology ain't scientific! You can't go spouting off any old cockamamie thing and call it science!\\
'''Patrick:''' Well... but I have a lab coat.
-->--''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'', "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS2E5MovieStarsDrSmartScience Dr. Smart Science]]"

->'''Mighty Eagle:''' I see all, and know all. [[ImmediateSelfContradiction What are your names?]]
->'''Chuck:''' If you know all, why don't you know who we are?
--> ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie''
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[[folder:Real Life]]

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

->''Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.''
-->-- '''Creator/HLMencken'''

->''Although it is true that [[Creator/PaulineKael Ms. Kael]] can hardly resist [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment a restatement, or a repetition, or a meaningless amplification]] (“ditsey little twitches,” “ruthless no soul monsters”; “incomprehensible bitch,” “obnoxious smartass”); although she seems at times to have a form of prose hypochondria, palpating herself all over to see if she has a thought, and [[WallOfText publishing every word of the process]] by which she checks to see whether or not she has one; it is also, equally, true that she can hardly resist any form of hyperbole, superlative, exaggeration...''
-->--'''Renate Adler''', "House Critic"

->''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.''
-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal''', ''Palimpsest''

->''"Somebody's gotta stand up to experts."''
-->--'''Don [=McLeroy=]''', former chairman of the Texas Board of Education

->''In saying I have 'no training' he has lied. I have a Cambridge degree in [[ADegreeInUseless classical architecture.]]''
-->--'''Viscount Christopher Monckton''', climatologist[?]

->''"He's the worst kind of idiot: the idiot who thinks he's a genius."''
-->--'''Tom Jackson''', ESPN, on then-St. Louis Rams coach Mike Martz

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

->''"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know."''
-->-- '''Creator/{{Laozi}}'''

->''"I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm than a man who knows everything."''
-->-- '''John D. Rockefeller'''

->''"He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions."''
-->-- '''Creator/{{Confucius}}'''

->''"It is not enough to wear the mantle of [[UsefulNotes/GalileoGalilei Galileo]]; that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment. [[PretenderDiss You must also be right]]."''
-->-- '''Miscellaneous''' (attributed to Robert L. Park)
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