People Who Think They Know it all

People Who Think They Know it all Ice Breakers Button Museum
Category
Ice Breakers
Humorous
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People Who Think They Know it all button back Ice Breakers Button Museum
Text on Button PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY KNOW IT ALL REALLY ANNOY THOSE OF US WHO DO
Image Description

White text on a black background
Curl Text 47868-5 copyright 1985 SKY ENT. VENICE, CA
Back Style
Locking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
1 3/4 inch
Year / Decade Made
1985
1980s
Additional Information

Isaac Asimov, renowned science fiction author, gained credit for this statement, "Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do" (Quote Investigator, 2019, "Readers Digest"). However, there has been no solid evidence stating Asimov said or wrote this quote. After some digging, the Quote Investigator found the earliest quote inside The Saturday Evening Post in 1961 with a variation by Harold Coffin, a humor columnist at Associated Press at that time. People including comedians, Joey Adams and Milton Berle, used Coffin's quote or created many variants as the idiom evolved throughout history.

 
Sources


Quote Investigator. (2019, July 13). The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/07/13/know-all/
Catalog ID IB0538