Quotes with know-nothings

Quotes 1841 till 1860 of 2478.

  • Beth Broderick This one fellow I met at the gym. I went out to dinner with him and he said, 'I've been watching you for a year and I never thought you'd go out with me!' Then he fainted at the dinner table. I didn't know what the hell to make of that.
    Beth Broderick
    American actress (1959 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Doris Lessing This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we -we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Blaise Pascal Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bob Geldof Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Aristotle Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Ben E. King Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Brendon Burchard Those things that you just do, if you put that together in a DVD program, let's say, for $97, to teach people how to do that. Well, if you sold 100 of those a month, that's $9,700 of income a month just teaching what you already do and know to people who want to learn how to do the same.
    Brendon Burchard
    American author (1977 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Santayana Those who do not know history's mistakes are doomed to repeat them.
    The Life of Reason, Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense (1905)
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Edmund Burke Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Golda Meir Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Bertrand Russell Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Samuel Butler Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Those who know how to think need no teachers.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Farquhar Those who know the least obey the best.
    George Farquhar
    Irish playwright (1677 - 1707)
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  • James Russell Lowell Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • C. S. Lewis Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time.
    The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) Ch. 15
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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