Knowing Nothing Quotes

39 quotes by 36 authors

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything. — Mayim Bialik
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. — Maya Angelou
Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they… — Carl Sagan
The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful. — Oscar Wilde
I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing... then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny,… — Paul Klee
We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken… — Paul Elmer More
But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama… — Aaron Eckhart
Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your… — Minnie Maddern Fiske
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing… — Ben Horowitz
He watched a catbird hopping around in an azalea that was readying itself to bloom; he envied the bird for knowing nothing of what he… — Jonathan Franzen
A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption. — Thomas Jefferson
I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to me… — Peter Carey
One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real'… — Chuck Palahniuk
I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing… — Pat Conroy
We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except… — Stephen King
The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome. — Tibor Kalman
Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that… — Lynsay Sands
She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except… — Tom Perrotta
Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the… — Claude Levi-Strauss

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