Knows Nothing Quotes
132 Knows Nothing quotes by 107 unique authors
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...the first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong, brutal killers, bullying other countries; that we who…
— Marcus Luttrell
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I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.
— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
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When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one way or another,…
— Flannery O'Connor
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Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas our greatest happinesses…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse…
— Ahdaf Soueif
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man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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It is precisely through the onset of old age, through loss or personal tragedy, that the spiritual dimension would traditionally come into people's lives. This…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally…
— Umberto Eco
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There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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You'll often hear the phrase "science doesn't know everything." Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean…
— Stephen Fry
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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise…
— Blaise Pascal
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I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do.…
— Vivienne Westwood
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Foolish. Stupid. I knew it. I knew my reaction was unreasonable, bu the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal said…
— Megan Hart
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She who invented words, and yet does not speak; she who brings dreams and visions, yet does not sleep; she who swallows the storm, yet…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in…
— Iris Murdoch
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If one does not make human knowledge wholly dependent upon the original self-knowledge and consequent revelation of God to man, then man will have to…
— Cornelius Van Til
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
— Cesare Pavese
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
— Oscar Wilde
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Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we…
— Unknown Author
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America knows nothing of food, love, or art.
— Isadora Duncan
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Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
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