John Dryden Quotes

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

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

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

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

What about your school? It's defective, it's a pack of useless lies.

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

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

The 'problem lies' are the half-dozen or so falsehoods we hear every day that can lead us down the wrong path in our careers, change how we do business, or dramatically influence our personal lives.

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.

Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn'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.

It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.

Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman – how dense! Confucius and you are both dreaming! And when I say you are dreaming, I am dreaming, too. Words like these will be labeled the Supreme Swindle.

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.

It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so.

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.

What really bothers me, what gets me mad, is when people don't know the story, but then pretend like they know the story. That's what bothers me. That's what makes me mad.

It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

It is better to have no ideas than false ones.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.