A Quote by Josh Billings

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

Josh Billings

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Damage Does Ignorance Much

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

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

Josh Billings

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

Mark Twain

You know, chemo and radiation is a very tough customer. It does so much good, but it also does a lot of damage.

Cindy McCain

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

Josh Billings

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

Paul Fussell

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

Henry Miller

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well.

Thomas a Kempis

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

Conor McGregor

Losing touch with spirit does nothing to the field of creativity, which is beyond harm; but it can do much to damage a person's chance in life.

Deepak Chopra

He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.

Thomas a Kempis

A nation that does not read much does not know much. And a nation that does not know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box, and the voting booth. And those decisions ultimately affect the entire nation...the literate and illiterate.

Jim Trelease

To live our lives and miss that great purpose we were designed to accomplish is truly a sin. It is inconceivable that we could be bored in a world with so much wrong to tackle, so much ignorance to reach and so much misery we could alleviate

William Wilberforce

Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.

Robert Browning

I have a consistent rule: The American people should know as much about the Pentagon as the Soviet Union and China do, as much about General Motors as Ford does, and as much about City Bank as Chase Manhattan does.

Ralph Nader

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

Carl Sagan

We won't dispassionately investigate or rationally debate which drugs do what damage and whether or how much of that damage is the result of criminalization. We'd rather work ourselves into a screaming fit of puritanism and then go home and take a pill.

P. J. O'Rourke

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