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Knows Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can…
- It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man…
- Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place
- No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated…
- Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.
- Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right…
- The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue, and…
- The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of…
- Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right…
- Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
- The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon
- I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am… — John James Audubon
- A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. — Robert Baden-Powell
- When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. — Enid Bagnold
- What I respect in people more than anything is work ethic. And Justin Timberlake's got that. He works his tail off, and… — Amy Adams
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin
- There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and… — James A. Baldwin
- A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. — Honore de Balzac
- The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the… — Djuna Barnes