 | 1911 - 994 ページ
...prevent the publication and broadcast distribution of literature of this stamp, for it is certainly better "Not to know so much, than to know so many things that are not so." I am very anxious to have dentistry "make good" as a branch of recognized science, ie,... | |
 | Noah Knowles Davis - 1880 - 344 ページ
...volunteer. Tbe crime of suicide deserves capital punishment. There are many kinds of individuals. It is better not to know so much than to know so many things that aren't so. But sometimes the paradox is extra dictionem, and not quite so obvious. Suppose we say of... | |
 | 1886 - 612 ページ
...rendering as given by that irrepressible humorist, Josh Billings, as follows: "A man had better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so." This is a hint to make haste slowly, for the writer, Dr. G. and all the rest of us. The most serious... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - 1886 - 116 ページ
...of the late Josh Billings' most profound bits of philosophy, where he says, " A man had better not know so much than to know so many things that ain't so." Mr. Talmage knows more things about Evolution that " ain't so " than any other living man. Sidney Smith... | |
 | Alphonso Alva Hopkins - 1888 - 380 ページ
...like subscribing in his behalf to the truth of Josh Billings's affirmation — " It's a great deal better not to know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so." If the Michigan campaign had continued a week longer, there's no telling what further lies General... | |
 | Robert J. Johnson, George Willis Cooke - 1889 - 254 ページ
...excess of knowledge recalls the keen-edged remark of a popular American humorist, who says, "It is better not to know so much than to know so many things that are not so." The two statements cited from Sadlier's " History" are neither damnable nor any other... | |
 | 1894 - 704 ページ
...the children's minds, unassimilated -with their body of knowledge. It were better, he finally thinks, not to know so much, than to know so many things that won't work. So he sloughs it all off and returns to his former ways. There is a third stage to which... | |
 | 1896 - 390 ページ
...reference to the first part of this communication, the saying of Artemas Ward comes to mind: "It is better not to know so much than to know so many things that ain't so." Seriously, however, I am sure we can all sympathize with this teacher who is just finding out that... | |
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It is better," said an American humorist, " not to know so much than to know so many things that ain't so. 
