Russell Baker Quotes

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 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.

Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

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

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

Ignorance breeds fear.

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

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.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; and the bullshit you just think you know but really don't.

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

Even when you don't know, you're supposed to know.

The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember.

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.