Quotes with know-nothings

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  • Buddha If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Assata Shakur If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 222
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • St. John of the Cross It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
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  • Barbara Hershey It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.
    Barbara Hershey
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Peter Townshend It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
    Peter Townshend
    English musician, singer, songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Dorothy L. Sayers Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Hannah Arendt Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Alfred Adler Man know much more than he understands.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Havelock Ellis Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Joseph Addison Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Bennet Omalu No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what's going on in their brains. It's like torture to me.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Molière Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Sir John Lubbock Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Carrie Fisher People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • George Allen People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
    George Allen
    American senator and politician (1952 - )
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  • Molière People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Stephen King People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the heart of a small boy - and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Denis Waitley Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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