Knew Nothing Quotes

92 quotes by 85 authors

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing. — Paul Cezanne
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
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
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
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
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
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
Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it. — Cliff Richard
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
I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance. — Gloria Swanson
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
When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything! — Tanith Lee
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
But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey. — Leigh Steinberg
Iâ€™m not a fan of â€˜write what you know.â€™ If you donâ€™t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing… — A. J. Jacobs
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
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
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
The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing — Francis Parker Yockey
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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