Quotes with know-nothings

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  • Basil Bunting Who says it's poetry, anyhow?
    My ten year old
    can do it and rhyme.
    Mr Hines says so, and he's a schoolteacher,
    he ought to know.
    Go and find work
    Odes What The Chairman Told Tom, II:6
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Jacques Barzun Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game.
    Jacques Barzun
    French-American historian (1907 - 2012)
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  • Anne Wilson Schaef Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.
    Anne Wilson Schaef
    American clinical psychologist and author
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Ann Coulter Why couldn't Obama have picked somebody respectable as his running mate, you know, like John Kerry did?
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Tom Hopkins Why don't you want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is that you're in conflict with yourself.
    Tom Hopkins
    English professional footballer (1911 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ben Folds Why you gotta act like you know, if you don't know?
    It's okay if you don't know everything.
    Lyrics Bastard, Songs for Silverman (2005)
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • John Cheever Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Billy Koch With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over here and had a great year for them. I'm hoping that's what it'll be - fresh start, new faces, new team, new city. I'm looking forward to getting out there.
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  • Anne Campbell With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • Bernard Malamud Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Bernard Malamud Without heroes, we're all plain people, and don't know how far we can go.
    The Natural p. 154.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Confucius Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Lao-Tzu Without stirring abroad, one can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window one can see the way of heaven. The further one goes the less one knows.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Louise Erdrich Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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