Know Nothing Quotes

486 Know Nothing quotes by 359 unique authors

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
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. — Leo Tolstoy
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
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
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
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. — Voltaire
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
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
Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much. — Dorothy Parker
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
I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things,… — Alice Walker
If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. — Oscar Wilde
Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it. — C.S. Lewis
Just because you don't know everything don't mean you know nothing. — Karen Cushman
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss… — Erich Maria Remarque
To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of… — Athol Fugard
What did i know of your fantasies? Why do we know so little about the fantasies of our parents? What do we know of somebody… — Pascal Mercier
For the beginning is assuredly the end- since we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities. — William Carlos Williams
One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'-… — E. M. Forster
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all. — Voltaire
If you should ask me where I've been all this time I have to say "Things happen." I have to dwell on stones darkening the… — Pablo Neruda
That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it. — Mark Twain
It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him. — Megan McCafferty
I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume… — Aldous Huxley
Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about cookery and writes… — Mary Ann Shaffer

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