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.
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The problem ain't what people know. It's what people know that ain't so that's the problem.
The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.
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View PlansThe trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant. It’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.
Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.
I know too much and not enough
It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.
The unknown words remind me that there's a lot I don't know in this world.
If it seemeth to thee that thou knowest many things, and understandest them well, know also that there are many more things which thou knowest not.
We live in a world saturated with information. We have virtually unlimited amounts of data at our fingertips at all times, and we’re well versed in the arguments about the dangers of not knowing enough and not doing our homework. But what I have sensed is an enormous frustration with the unexpected costs of knowing too much, of being inundated with information. We have come to confuse information with understanding.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. - Will Rogers The
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
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There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
There's a terror in knowing what the world is about
The vast accumulations of knowledge — or at least of information — deposited by the nineteenth century have been responsible for an equally vast ignorance. When there is so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when every one knows a little about a great many things, it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know whether he knows what he is talking about or not. And when we do not know, or when we do not know enough, we tend always to substitute emotions for thoughts.
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