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

January 1, 1970

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Attributed to Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) by The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979), 3d ed., p. 491. Not verified in his writings, although some similar ideas are found in Everybody's Friend, or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor (1874). Original spelling is corrected: "What little I do know I hope I am certain of" (p. 502). "Wisdom don't consist in knowing more that is new, but in knowing less that is false" (p. 430). "I honestly believe it is bett