Quote

Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.

Will Rogers

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Journalist
Politician
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Oologah
Oklahoma
William Penn Adair Rogers
William Rogers
Ignorance
Lies
Lying
Things

More quotes by Will Rogers

Image
A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.
Will Rogers
Image
Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.
Will Rogers
Image
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers
Image
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
Will Rogers
Image
If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.
Will Rogers
Image
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers
Image
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Will Rogers
Image
The US is safest when Congress is in recess.
Will Rogers
Image
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
Will Rogers
Image
It don't take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.
Will Rogers
Image
No party is as bad as its leaders.
Will Rogers
Image
That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.
Will Rogers
Image
Everyone wants to vote for the best and most qualified man, but he never runs for office.
Will Rogers
Image
If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.
Will Rogers
Image
If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
Will Rogers
Image
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
Will Rogers
Image
If you got a dollar, soak it away, put it in a savings bank, bury it, do anything but spend it. Spending when we didn't have it put us where we are today. Saving when we've got it will get us back to where we was before we went cuckoo.
Will Rogers
Image
Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.
Will Rogers
Image
Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.
Will Rogers
Image
Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.
Will Rogers