In times of rapid change September 14, 2023 by PG In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. J. Paul Getty Click to Tweet/Email/Share This Post
Time for the old: “”What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.” Attributed to many, from Napoleon to Twain, verified to no one in particular. Times change, people’s “certainties” don’t.
Quote Investigator traces the popular form of the saying back to an 1869 newspaper column by Josh Billings: ‘I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain’t so.’ It has grown and effoliated since, in passing from pen to pen.
Time for the old:
“”What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know.
It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.”
Attributed to many, from Napoleon to Twain, verified to no one in particular.
Times change, people’s “certainties” don’t.
Quote Investigator traces the popular form of the saying back to an 1869 newspaper column by Josh Billings:
‘I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain’t so.’
It has grown and effoliated since, in passing from pen to pen.