Knows Nothing Quotes
132 quotes by 109 authors
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The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
— Joseph Addison
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He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
— George Herbert
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The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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You have to pull all your energy back to the present moment. And the moment the whole energy becomes a pool, here and now, the…
— Rajneesh
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The fool knows nothing of God; he never comes across anything divine. He remains part of the stupid collectivity. Remember, the society, the collective has…
— Rajneesh
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A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.
— Carlos Castaneda
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I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the contents of his…
— J. G. Ballard
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I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food,…
— Isadora Duncan
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The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons, new chains. Response…
— Rajneesh
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I build molecules for a living. I can't begin to tell you how difficult that job is. I stand in awe of God because of…
— James Tour
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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
— Paracelsus
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Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to do harm. As…
— Kevin Martin
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He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think…
— Remy de Gourmont
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I object to being called a chess genius, because I consider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to play chess, which…
— Bobby Fischer
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One who knows nothing can understand nothing
— Billy Zane
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The man who cannot listen to an argument which opposes his views either has a weak position or is a weak defender of it. No…
— James E. Talmage
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God knows nothing gets accomplished in the world these days without terrorism.
— Manil Suri
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A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.
— Northrop Frye
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