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

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

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.

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

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

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

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

No one who lives in error is free.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

… fear false knowledge

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

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

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.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

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

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

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

Ignorance breeds fear.

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

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

A misconception remains a misconception, even when it is shared by the majority of people.