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Knowing Quotes by Mark Twain
- Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing…
- There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing
- The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves…
- I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and…
- As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not…
- It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a…
- Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
- When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors…
- It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor;…
- Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing…
- Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made…
- When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is…
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- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C.S. Lewis
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- Do you think the people who were trying to reach to the Everest were not full of doubts? For a hundred years,… — Rajneesh
- I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening,… — Thomas Merton
- We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond… — Barack Obama