Quotes with know-it-all

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  • Benjamin Cardozo It is well enough to say that we shall be consistent, but consistent with what?... The origins of the rule? The course and tendency of development? With logic or philosophy? With the fundamental conceptions of jurisprudence? All these loyalties are possible. All have sometimes prevailed.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Raymond Chandler It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Henry Kissinger It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • George Eliot It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Angela Carter It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • W. H. Auden It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bill Cosby It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Ben Stein It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Will Rogers It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Emmet Fox It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
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  • Robert Lynd It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are human beings.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Will Durant It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Baruch Spinoza It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Armistead Maupin It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Sir Roger L'Estrange It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.
    Sir Roger L'Estrange
    English journalist (1616 - 1702)
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  • Ben Bernanke It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Alice Walker It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Anthony Robbins It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Carole King It seemed that he had fallen into someone's wicked spell
    And I wept to see him suffer, though I didn't know him well.
    Tapestry (1971)
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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