Quotes with know-nothings

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  • Alice Duer Miller Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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  • Robert Frost Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Charles Lamb Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Liza Minnelli Don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.
    Liza Minnelli
    American actress and singer (1946 - )
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  • Tennessee Williams Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Aeschylus Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperament?
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Antonio Vieira Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.
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  • Kahlil Gibran Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Omar Khayyam Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Jim Rohn Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Bai Ling English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • Annie Dillard Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?".
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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