Quotes with know-nothings

Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 2478.

  • Bjork Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Don DeLillo Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.
    White Noise (2015) 126
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Bob Marley Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.
    As quoted in "Bob Marley: Musician" (Infobase Publishing, 2009) by Sherry Paprocki and Sean Dolan, p. 75
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Kathleen Raine Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience finds in nature the ''correspondence'' through which we may know our boundless selves.
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  • Buddha Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Meditation is just a strategy to take away your personality, your thoughts, your mind, your identity with the body, and leave you absolutely alone inside, just a living fire. And once you have found your living fire, you will know all the joys and all the ecstasies that human consciousness is capable of.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Samuel Johnson Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Camille Paglia Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Lord Mancroft Men who get on well with women are usually those who know how to get on without them.
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  • Heraclitus Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • Don Delillo Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
    Don Delillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Susan Ertz Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
    Susan Ertz
    British novelist (1894 - 1985)
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  • Edith Hamilton Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.
    Edith Hamilton
    American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Erich Fromm Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains - except kill it.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Samuel Johnson Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Burt Shavitz Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don't need it.
    Burt Shavitz
    American beekeeper and businessman (1935 - 2015)
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