Mark Twain Quotes

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

… fear false knowledge

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

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

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.

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

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that 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 what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.

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

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

It's not what we don't know that hurts us, people say. It's what we believe is true that isn't that does the damage.

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 the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

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.

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

No one who lives in error is free.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

All the Khmer leaders and nobles, all the district chiefs and all the common people are ignorant, stupid, foolish and gullible. They have no idea what is true and what is false.

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

Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another.