Knew Nothing Quotes
92 quotes by 85 authors
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
— Paul Cezanne
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All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing.…
— Ezra Pound
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Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. If you…
— Arthur Eddington
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There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And…
— Bennett Cerf
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Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew nothing but political…
— John Stuart Mill
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And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of…
— Aristotle
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I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, of all those…
— Count Basie
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Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it.
— Cliff Richard
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The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges : the pox…
— Adolf Hitler
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I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.
— Gloria Swanson
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Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the…
— Jules Henry
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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
— Tanith Lee
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This passion, so unordered and yet so potent, explains the capacity for teaching that one frequently observes in scientific men of high attainments in their…
— H. L. Mencken
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But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.
— Leigh Steinberg
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I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing…
— A. J. Jacobs
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My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits of my knowledge,…
— Tucker Max
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I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my…
— Tom Hayden
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I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business…
— Greg Ginn
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The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing
— Francis Parker Yockey
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Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that…
— Aphra Behn
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