Quotes with know-nothings

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  • Ann Bancroft For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • William Saroyan Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
    William Saroyan
    Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and writer (1908 - 1981)
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  • Henry David Thoreau He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Sun Tzu Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Carl Sandburg I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Elie Wiesel I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Joseph De Maistre I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Jack Kerouac I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!
    Jack Kerouac
    American novelist and poet (1922 - 1969)
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  • Carl Sagan I don't want to believe. I want to know.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Romain Rolland I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.
    Romain Rolland
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1915) (1866 - 1944)
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  • Aeschylus I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Marilyn Monroe I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Emily Dickinson If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Jonathan Swift If men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Buddha If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Sun Tzu If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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