Edwin Armstrong Quotes

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.

It's not the things you don't know that trip you up. It's the things you think you know, but you don't. You fail to ask a certain question because you believe you know the answer. Separating your information from your assumptions can be very tricky business.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.

The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.

It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

People are so quick to judge and make decisions for themselves about situations they know absolutely nothing about.

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

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

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

It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

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

Without any physical, chemical, and biological fundamentals, and with equally poor understanding of basic economic forces, it is no wonder that people will believe anything.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.

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

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.

Logic doesn't apply to the real world.

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.