Will Rogers Quotes

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

I'm not too unintelligent.

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.

Yes, being educated is definitely an advantage. But having said that, I've met so many people in life who haven't done very well at school but who are still really bright.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.