Quotes with know-nothings

Quotes 1981 till 2000 of 2478.

• We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

  Albert Schweitzer
  German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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• We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent.

  Bob Livingston
   
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• We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all the PCs out there.

  Burt Rutan
  American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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• We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

  Louise Erdrich
  American author (1954 - )
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• We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

  Joseph Joubert
  French writer (1754 - 1824)
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• We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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• We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

  Anatole France
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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• We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

  John B. S. Haldane
  British scientist, writer (1892 - 1964)
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• We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

  G.W.F. Hegel
  German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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• We don't know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.

  Dreamcatcher (2001) 33

  Stephen King
  American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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• We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.

  Martha Grimes
   
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• We don't need no more danger, we don't need no more difficulties, we don't need no more misunderstanding, and we don't need no more violence. We need the people to see each other and know of each other, feel each other, touch each other, share with each other, and change hearts with each other.

  Burning Spear
  Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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• We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

  Ariel Sharon
  Israeli general and politician (1928 - 2014)
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• We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.

  Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
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• We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

  Abraham H. Maslow
  American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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• We feel and know that we are eternal.

  Baruch Spinoza
  Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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• We felt we had to know something of his back story. I don't think people in the cinema would just accept that he's there. I think we had to learn how he (got there).

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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• We follow the mystics. They know where they are going. They, too, go astray, but when they go astray they do so in a way that is mystical, dark, and mysterious.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  Polish foreign correspondent and journalist (1932 - 2007)
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• We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

  Walter Lippmann
  American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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• We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  American suffragist, abolitionist and women's rights activist (1815 - 1902)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• misunderstanding
• understanding
• introspection
• considerably
• degradation
• yesterdays

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