Dunning Kruger Effect Quotes

“The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them."

(The Decider, July 21, 2007)”
― Bill Maher

“One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre”
― Robert Hughes

“Many fail to grasp what they have seen,
and cannot judge what they have learned,
although they tell themselves they know.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“Like all vain men, he had moments of unreasonable confidence.”
― Warren Eyster, The Goblins of Eros

“The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Dumb people like Trump think they're super smart, because they are so spectacularly stupid, they don't even know how much stuff they don't know. They are so dumb, they don't even know that other people know a lot more about a topic than they do.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes

“Bax had learned there weren’t many things a dumb guy liked more than to have someone tell him how smart he was.”
― dbschlosser

“The Dunning Kruger Effect: Dumb people like Trump don't know how dumb they are. They don't even know how much stuff they don't know. They don't know that other people know the stuff they don't know that they don't know. Dumb people like Trump believe they know everything there is to know.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America

“There is, and there always has been, an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement of I.Q.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens

“Uno de los aspectos más dolorosos de nuestros tiempos es que los estúpidos están muy seguros de sí mismos mientras los inteligentes están llenos de dudas”
― Bertrand Russell

“Then along came social media, the worst thing of all, the Cretin Unbound. Any moron could shout down Prometheus. The confederacy of dunces could descend like a pack and mock Apollo and Pythagoras. Now I’m putting an end to this circus. The clowns have performed long enough. The joke’s not funny anymore.”
― Mark Romel, The Mistletoe Murders: A Nietzschean Murder Mystery

“Conspiracy theories encourage the masses to believe in lurid nonsense and to denounce intellectuals, who are supposedly all in on the conspiracy and hard at work to deceive and enslave the people. But mediocrities, so we are to believe, can see through all intellectual bullshit … they know experts are idiots. Here we have the Dunning-Kruger effect in full flow, shining like the dumbest star in the sky, the one that hovered above that grubby stable in Bethlehem.”
― David Sinclair, Locusts, Hollywood, and the Valley of Ashes: Individualism Versus Collectivism

“الناس أربعة: رجل لا يدري ولا يدري أنه لا يدري، فهذا أحمق فاجتنبوه. ورجل لا يدري ويدري أنه لا يدري، فهذا جاهل فعلموه. ورجل يدري ولا يدري أنه يدري، فهذا نائم فأيقظوه. ورجل يدري وهو يدري أنه يدري، فهذا عالم فاتبعوه.”
― الخليل بن أحمد الفراهيدي