Quotes with know-nothings

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  • Billy Williams As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it's given me a lot of joy to know that Jackie started that. If Jackie hadn't come in '47, me and Ron Santo wouldn't have played in Double-A and all those years in the big leagues.
    Billy Williams
    American baseball player (1938 - )
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  • Elias Canetti As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Agnes Smedley But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Marva Collins Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
    Marva Collins
    American educator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Helen Keller Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Frank Zappa Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man - and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.''
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • William Shakespeare False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us - everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Ignoramus: A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • M. R. Dehaan Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future.
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  • Adele In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Bill Cosby In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and... mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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