Know Nothing Quotes
486 quotes by 359 authors
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We stayed huddled that way until the early hours of the morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had…
— Khaled Hosseini
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If this advertisement be not sufficient, I can only protrude my wormlike tendrils of apology, craving forbearance on the grounds that a writer must write…
— William T. Vollmann
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Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything.
— Philip Levine
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As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently…
— Carl Jung
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Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing.
— Ellen G. White
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Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with love? That is…
— Richard Bach
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None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close.…
— David Guterson
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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles
— Walt Whitman
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Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to…
— William Least Heat-Moon
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They lay listening. Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse…
— Cormac McCarthy
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
— Leo Tolstoy
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If hatred strikes you, if you get accused, thrown to the lions, you can expect one of two reactions from people who know you: some…
— Milan Kundera
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I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it…
— Emily Dickinson
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How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to…
— Ernest Hemingway
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The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
— Voltaire
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You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what…
— Lloyd Alexander
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God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in…
— John Adams
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Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.
— Dorothy Parker
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Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We…
— John Cheever
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