Quotes with know-nothings

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  • T. S. Eliot We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Albert Einstein We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us .
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Thomas Merton We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
    Thomas Merton
    American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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  • Beeban Kidron We think that there is this terrible idea that the kids are digital natives... and they know what they're doing, but all the evidence says that they're hanging around going, 'Where are you, I'm here, can I post my picture?' They're not actually writing wikis; they're not actually listening to great poets live.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Brooks Atkinson We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Albert Camus We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Thomas à Kempis We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Assata Shakur We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987)
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Lionel Trilling We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • John Lennon We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Bill Gates We're no longer in the days where everything is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make it to the top, you'll find that the key internal code was done by a few people who really know what they were doing.
    Interview from Programmers at Work
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Bobby Orr We're professional athletes. People know who we are, and if there's some way we can help with a friend or someone in need, that's a responsibility we have. I really strongly believe that.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Ben Platt We've done as best a job as we can making it clear that I'm earning what I'm earning because of me and not because of who my father is. But at the same time, I'm not ignoring things that would be dumb to ignore, like people that I can know through him and experiences I can have through him and things that I can learn from him.
    Ben Platt
    American actor, singer, and songwriter (1993 - )
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  • Thomas Mann We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skeptics, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • A. A. Milne Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Bruce Johnston Well, a lot of our concerts do okay, and I know we still get royalty checks which still isn't that important, but again, I have to just say that we're making our records.
    Bruce Johnston
    American singer, songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Afrika Bambaataa Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Bubba Smith Well, everybody knew their character. I was the only one who didn't have a partner. I basically showed up when people got in trouble. Where I came from, I don't know. Nobody knows. But I would show up to help.
    Bubba Smith
    American professional football player (1945 - )
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  • John Pierpont Morgan Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.
    John Pierpont Morgan
    American banker, financer, art collector (1837 - 1913)
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  • Carol Burnett Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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