Quotes with know-nothings

Quotes 1881 till 1900 of 2478.

  • Eric Hoffer To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Quentin Crisp To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Jean Francois Regnard To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Joseph De Maistre To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Albert Einstein To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Confucius To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Albert Camus To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed. That can make life a garden.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Mark Caine To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.
    Mark Caine
    American writer
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  • George W. Truett To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.
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  • Albert Einstein To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Confucius To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • René Descartes To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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