George Bernard Shaw Quotes

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

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

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

It is better to be ignorant than to half know something.

It's not what you don't know that kills you but what you know that isn't so.

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

It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

We live in such a gullible world. Anything that's written, anything that's posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

… fear false knowledge

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious—just dead wrong.

Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

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

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.