Josh Billings Quotes

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

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

It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people 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 know nothing than to know what ain't so.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

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

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

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived.

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

… fear false knowledge

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 is better to have no ideas than false ones.

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.