Knows Nothing Quotes
132 Knows Nothing quotes by 107 unique authors
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There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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The proverbist knows nothing of the two sides of a question. He knows only the roundness of answers.
— Karl Shapiro
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A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.
— Julianna Baggott
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Anyone who lives in Washington and has an official position viscerally understands the cost of a lack of privacy. Every dinner - especially ones with…
— Ezekiel Emanuel
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However, I have a low opinion of people with narrow political horizons. Someone who talks about the environment and knows nothing about economics can make…
— Sigmar Gabriel
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Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known.
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The…
— Plato
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Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Anyone who uses Helvetica knows nothing about typefaces.
— Wolfgang Weingart
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Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time…
— Saint Basil
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What if I have it all upside down? What if I'm the one who knows nothing of God, and the people in the world are…
— Mark Salzman
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Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws;…
— Honore de Balzac
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Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
— Jean Genet
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
— Blaise Pascal
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He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
— Oscar Wilde
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She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.
— Oscar Wilde
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This world has been connected...tied to the darkness...soon to be completely eclipsed...there is very much to learn...you understand so little...a meaningless effort...one who knows nothing…
— Shiro Amano
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Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out…
— Anne Sexton
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It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim.
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.
— Albert Einstein
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The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after…
— Milan Kundera
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