Quotes with know-nothings

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  • Doug Horton If it looks like shit, smells like shit, mail it to your enemy... he'll know what to do with it.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Blaise Pascal If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
    Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Brad Carson If Republicans want to bring these things up for a vote, I'm letting them know where I stand.
    Brad Carson
    American lawyer and politician (1967 - )
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  • Kin Hubbard If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Ad Reinhardt If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
    Ad Reinhardt
    American abstract painter (1913 - 1967)
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  • Beck If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bob Filner If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Ben Stein If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • William Shakespeare If to do were as easy as to know, what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes'palaces.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • C. Wright Mills If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens are now idiots. And I should not be surprised, although I don't know, if there were some such idiots even in Germany.
    The British Journal of Sociology Structure of Power in America, Vol. 9 (March 1958)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Simone Weil If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Abraham Lincoln If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Buzz Aldrin If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don't have. It sounds great - 'Let's go back. This time we're going to stay.' I don't know why you would want to stay on the moon.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Burnie Burns If we got $100 million dollars to make a movie, I don't know if we should be making a $100 million dollar movie our first time out.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Freeman Dyson If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.
    Freeman Dyson
    American arts, writer (1923 - 2020)
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  • Bryan Callen If you actually get down to the nitty-gritty of the average Pakistani, the average Indian, the average whoever, what you really do know emotionally is that they're exactly the same.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Carolyn See If you are in any way squeamish or genteel, skip 'Gillespie and I.' If you'd like to know a little more about the seamy side of the human condition, by all means, pick this one up.
    Carolyn See
    American writer (1934 - 2016)
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