Clever Quote by Arnold Kling

“Elites mistakenly believe they know more than they actually do, and successes within their own specialties of knowledge lead them to overestimate their competence…

— Jayson Lusk

“When leaders lack expertise, nothing else works”

— Captain VS Parani

Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.

— Terry Pratchett

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds

— Anonymous

Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance…

— Walter E. Williams

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

— Charles Darwin

“The inept are gifted at overlooking the extent of their incompetence. They suffer from illusory superiority, which leads them to make even more thinking…

— Rolf Dobelli

“Many of the people who campaign against established knowledge are otherwise adept and successful in their daily lives. In some ways, it is all…

— Thomas M. Nichols

Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“The intention of this book is to explain how an ill-educated, psychologically unbalanced nonentity succeeded in mesmerizing an entire nation,”

— Paul Roland

“Have you ever come across people that you know are less competent yet they confidently claim to be otherwise? This is in fact another…

— Charles Holm

In many aspects of government, as in the tech world and investing, brains and temperament smash experience and seniority out of the park.

— Dominic Cummings