Quotes with know-it-all

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• The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking.

  ― Philip K. Dick
  American science fiction writer (1928 - 1982)
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• The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.

  ― Malcolm Muggeridge
  British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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• The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.

  ― Calvin Harris
  Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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• The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

  ― Louis Kronenberger
  American literary critic and novelist (1904 - 1980)
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• The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

  ― Josh Billings
  American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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• The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

  ― Bill Shankly
  Scottish football player and manager (1913 - )
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• The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him.

  ― Cher
  American singer and actress (1946 - )
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• The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

  ― Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
  

  ― William Somerset Maugham
  English writer (1874 - 1965)
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• The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.

  ― Olive Schreiner
  South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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• The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

  ― Ralph J. Cudworth
  English clergyman
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• The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

  ― Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  English writer (1874 - 1936)
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• The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

  ― Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.

  ― John Holt
  American author and educator (1923 - 1985)
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• The true use of a letter is to let one know that one is remembered and valued.

  ― James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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• The truth is I am a perfect part of the exact point at which all individual human beings meet and the spectrum of voices weaving themselves in between and screaming 'every sick thought you've ever had and every twisted feeling you've ever felt are what make this painting complete.

  Source: Poetry

  ― Buddy Wakefield
  American poet and actor (1974 - )
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• The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

  ― Ayn Rand
  Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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• The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
  

  ― David Bowie
  English singer, songwriter and actor (1947 - 2016)
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• The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

  ― Smiley Blanton
  American psychoanalyst (1882 - 1966)
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• The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?

  ― Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• intelligibility
• intelligible
• schoolmaster
• essentially
• intelligent
• recognized

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