Josh Billings Quotes

It is better to know nothing than to know what 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's not what you don't know that kills you but what you know that isn't so.

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

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.

… fear false knowledge

Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another.

It is better to have no ideas than false ones.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

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

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

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

No one who lives in error is free.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

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.

Error is worse than ignorance.

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much 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.

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.

When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

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