“It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.”

— Ronald Reagan

1960s, A Time for Choosing (1964)
Variant: The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so.

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