Josh Billings Quotes

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

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.

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

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

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

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

… fear false knowledge

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

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

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

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

It is better to have no ideas than false ones.

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.

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.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

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

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.

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

Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.

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

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.

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

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

No one who lives in error is free.