Quotes with know-nothings

Quotes 1901 till 1920 of 2478.

  • Barry Ritholtz To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks realize.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Lao-Tzu To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Peter Carey To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.
    Oscar and Lucinda (2010) 261
    Peter Carey
    Australian writer (1943 - )
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Sydney Smiles To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.
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  • Kofi Annan To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Oscar Wilde To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh To me the greatest problem with humanity is that they don't know anything of meditation.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Beck To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Quentin Crisp To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
    The Naked Civil Servant (1968) Ch. 9
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • John Gray To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.
    John Gray
    American relationship counselor, lecturer and author (1948 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.
    Letters & Autobiographical Writings (1954)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Thomas Carlyle To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bodhidharma To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Buzz Aldrin To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • W. Clement Stone To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Mark Twain To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Jean Paul Getty To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Brent Scowcroft To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Alexis Carrel To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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