A Quote by Josh Billings

Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff; ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE.

Josh Billings

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Josh Billings
American - Comedian
April 21, 1818 - October 14, 1885

Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

Mark Twain

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

Josh Billings

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

Josh Billings

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.

Jim Rohn

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.

Jaggi Vasudev

There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.

Cormac McCarthy

The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.

Michelle Shocked

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

Sydney J. Harris

Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are the true sources of enthusiasm.

David Hume

Happiness is knowin' you've done a good job, whether it's professional or for another person.

Elvis Presley

There is a lot of ignorance, and I don't mean intellectual ignorance. I mean people think that if you get something, it will take away from what I have. It's just ignorance.

Maya Angelou

There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

Ezra Pound

Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.

Ramakrishna

What I've created comedically owes a lot to my ignorance of comedy and love of making theatre stuff.

Tim Minchin

There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.