The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

Often attributed to Mark Twain

Variant attributed to a philosopher in Dealer Display Advertising (Ronald Press Company, 1936), p. 55: "It isn't the folks who know absolutely nothing that deserve sympathy. It's those poor fellows who know so many things that just aren't so"


The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.