Quotes with know-nothings

Quotes 1601 till 1620 of 2478.

  • Winston Churchill The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Charles Lamb The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Louise Erdrich The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one.
    Liefdesmedicijn (2010) 66
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
    Pensees
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Ernest Dimnet The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
    Ernest Dimnet
    French priest, writer and lecturer (1866 - 1954)
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  • Jacques-Yves Cousteau The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
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  • David Russell The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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  • Blaise Pascal The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Al Gore The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Paul E. Little The Holy Spirit can't save saints or seats. If we don't know any non-Christians, how can we introduce them to the Savior?
    Paul E. Little
    American Christian author
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  • William Wordsworth The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Mark Twain The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bill Hicks The idea of getting a, you know, syringe full of heroin and shooting it in the vein under my cock right now seems like almost a productive act.
    Im Sorry Folks
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Carrie Mae Weems The ideas I'm working with are ideas I'm committed to. I don't know how to soft-shoe them. I don't know how to make them more palpable. I just never knew how to be one of those girls. I wish I knew how to be that sometimes, but I don't know how to be that way.
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  • Will Rogers The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Barry Levinson The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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