“It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble it's what we know that ain't so.”
More from Will Rogers on Wisdom
“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
“Always drink upstream from the herd.”
“Everybody is ignorant, Just on different subjects.”
“An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.”
“If stupidity got us into this, why can't stupidity get us out?”
“There is nothing so stupid as an educated man if you get off the thing that he was educated in.”
“Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock.”
“Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.”
“It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.”
“There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.”
Others on Wisdom
Sun Tzu
30 quotes“Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.”
Dalai Lama
22 quotes“Compassion is the radicalism of our time.”
Cervantes
20 quotes“A closed mouth catches no flies.”
Aesop
19 quotes“Little by little does the trick.”
Confucius
19 quotes“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials.”
Ben Franklin
18 quotes“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
Napoleon
16 quotes“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
Cicero
15 quotes“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.”
George Washington
14 quotes“Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.”
Rudyard Kipling
14 quotes“I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know) Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and...”
Khalil Gibran
14 quotes“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”
George R.R. Martin
14 quotes“This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.”