Tom DeMarco Quotes

… fear false knowledge

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

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

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

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

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's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain'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.

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

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

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.

No one who lives in error is free.

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

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

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.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

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.

You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

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