Quote:Reagan knowing things that aren't so

Some Quotes from Reagan knowing things that aren't so.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni

❝ Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn’t so! ❞
~ Ronald Reagan ℹ️ "A Time for Choosing" speech (1964)

❝ It ain’t so much the things that people don’t know that makes trouble in this world, as it is the things that people know that ain’t so ❞
~ Mark Twain (Attributed) ℹ️ 1947 Janesville Daily Gazette

❝ the trouble with old men is they remember so many things that ain’t so ❞
~ Mark Twain ℹ️ 1909 advertisement within a book called “A Drum’s Story”

❝ I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so ❞
~ Josh Billings ℹ️ 1874”

The quote has also been attributed to Josh Billings, Artemus Ward, Will Rogers, Ronald Reagan and others. But it's been rewritten and paraphrased, and the oldest usage found was from Josh Billings in 1874 (though he used archaic/dialectical spelling). But that was in a book section about aphorisms, implying he was quoting things that far predated him, not that he actually created them.

So Reagan gets credit for the quote as often used in popular culture, as it was an old aphorism, repurposed and brought into common popular and modern usage by him.

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