Mark Twain Quotes

… fear false knowledge

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

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

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 ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

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

No one who lives in error is free.

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

That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.

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

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

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

Error is always more busy than truth.

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

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

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

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.

Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what 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.

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.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

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