Know Nothing Quotes

486 quotes by 370 authors

Students throughout the totalitarian world risk life and limb for freedom of expression, many American college students are demanding that big brother restrict their freedom… — Alan Dershowitz
Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time… — Dee Hock
After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing… — Henry Adams
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will… — Maurice Maeterlinck
Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know one… — H. L. Mencken
Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of… — Martin Luther
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. We teach more by what we… — Will Durant
If I do not give a friend "The benefit of the doubt," but put the worst construction instead of the best on what is said… — Amy Carmichael
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own… — Jorge Luis Borges
I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to… — Mahatma Gandhi
As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space. — Charles Scott Sherrington
Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other… — Michel de Montaigne
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience. — Abraham Lincoln
How great the lie right to the top: We don't torture people in America and people who say we do simply know nothing about our… — George W. Bush
I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer… — Bernard Cornwell
I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh. — Norman Wisdom
There are a million things in music I know nothing about. I just want to narrow down that figure. — Andre Previn
There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be… — Bertrand Russell
I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very… — Charles Lindbergh
It is good to come to a country you know practically nothing about. Your thoughts grow still, useless. Everything must be rebuilt. In a country… — Andrzej Stasiuk

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