 | Association of American Physicians - 1913 - 854 psl.
...discussion of the etiology seemed likely to provoke the criticism made by Artemus Ward that "it is better not to know so many things than to know so many things that ain't so." XI. GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS. The question may well be asked whether there is any warrant for bringing... | |
 | Ralph Emerson Twitchell - 1914 - 746 psl.
...narrative was evidently a romancer. He at least had forgotten entirely the prudential maxim : It is better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so. "The chaplain mentioned in these narratives is evidently intended to be understood as Pray... | |
 | American Mathematical Society - 1917 - 520 psl.
...understand, it is worse teaching to tell them things which are not true. Certainly in their case "It is better not to know so many things, than to know so many things that ain't so." In the second chapter we get a real start in the proper subject matter of the book. The topics dealt... | |
 | 1917 - 486 psl.
...great value upon what other people say is to pay them too much honor!" While the remark that "it is better not to know so many things than to know so many things which are not so," is accredited to a distinguished humorist long since deceased, it may be aptly applied... | |
 | William Winter, William Jefferson Winter - 1918 - 724 psl.
...its formidable array of misstatements I have ruefully recalled the remark of Artemus Ward that "it is better not to know so many things than to know so many things that ain't so." Some of its errors I have specified and rectified, in other places, in the course of this narrative.... | |
 | 1920 - 380 psl.
...the facetious commentary of a famous gentleman long since deceased seems strangely a propos: " It is better not to know so many things, than to know so many things that are not so." It is 'a fact well established by surgical records that the most modern and approved operative... | |
 | Joseph Aloysius Dunney - 1921 - 366 psl.
...often been contaminated with their dust long ere the body of truth was touched. They forgot that "it is better not to know so many things than to know so many things what ain't so." Another logical and lamentable result has been that, in their feverish thirst for forbidden... | |
 | James McKeen Cattell - 1922 - 624 psl.
...an empty room than a rubbish heap. In the words of our American philosopher, Josh Billings, "it is better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so. ' ' Go systematically through your intellectual equipment and see wherein it is deficient.... | |
 | Joseph Kinmont Hart - 1924 - 440 psl.
...useless; it is positively fallacious. It reminds one of the famous statement of Josh Billings, " It's better not to know so many things than to know so many things that ain't so." In addition to the things that aren't so, there is a large amount of vicious material in current circulation,... | |
 | Edwin Emery Slosson - 1924 - 322 psl.
...an empty room than a rubbish-heap. In the words of our American philosopher, Josh Billings, "it is better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so." Go systematically through your intellectual equipment and see wherein it is deficient.... | |
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it is better not to know so many things than to know so many things that ain't so. 
