The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
Personally, people know themselves very poorly.
There's stuff that everybody does that they don't know they do.
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
People love to be told what they know already.
They are so knowing, that they know nothing.
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