Top 100 I Know Nothing Quotes
#2. Please, I know nothing of the world, except my father is lost in it.
Gregory Maguire
#3. I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.
Thomas Jefferson
#4. A warrior always, you lift a hand to create or destroy as you will, and heed no one's call but your own. And all the while, my one breathless thought, repeating as though I know nothing else ... Take me with you.
Donya Petrock
#6. Pain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong. I told him that he knows next to nothing about me & I know nothing about him. He jabbed at his eyes & jabbed at mine, as if that single gesture were ample explanation.
David Mitchell
#7. I know nothing of magick," the naked man said to the raven, "except what you told me." He laughed sadly. "And I barely remember that. I tend to drift off when you ramble.
Ash Gray
#8. Your faith is admirable, Pelleas. But I know nothing of sorcery. As it is, I have not been able to discover how the spell may be broken or how Merlin may be released from it.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#9. There is someone who is living my life. And I know nothing about him.
Luigi Pirandello
#10. If I can enjoy a joke at the expense of another; if I can in any way slight another in conversation, or even in thought, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Amy Carmichael
#11. Scio me nihil scire" - I know that I know nothing
Socrates
#12. Every human being in this world is interested in certain things. Everybody has a hobby. Some people like art; I know nothing about it. Some people like books, some people like fishing, some people like music. I like to look at cars.
Bikram Choudhury
#13. I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.
Sarah Moore Grimke
#14. If I do not feel far more for the grieved Saviour than for my worried self when troublesome things occur, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Amy Carmichael
#15. Not being a liberal, I have very little grasp of things that I know nothing about.
P. J. O'Rourke
#16. I know nothing about nature. I hate nature, because it is killing me.
Thomas Bernhard
#17. I know nothing about you except that I want to move through the world with you for as long as you'll let me.
Warren Ellis
#18. I know nothing which can so comfort the soul; so calm the swelling billows of sorrow and grief; so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.
Charles Spurgeon
#19. I know nothing, Ygritte, he [Jon Snow] thought, and perhaps I never will (465).
George R R Martin
#20. I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.
Nicholas II
#21. Although I know nothing against myself, yet I am not hereby justified,(4) because if Thy mercy were removed away, in Thy sight should no man living be justified.(5)
Thomas A Kempis
#22. It's a whole other kind of sorcery - pulling the pieces of a shattered heart back together, and it's one I know nothing about.
Daniel Jose Older
#23. You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#24. Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.
James Dyson
#25. If you write what you know about, you will always be on safe ground. I am very edgy and nervous about going into territories I know nothing about. That's why you don't find much high finance, group sex, or yachting parties in my stories.
Maeve Binchy
#26. I asked Ochto what in the name of all that was sacred he thought he was doing.
"Helping you," said Dirnes.
"Why?"
They put the soldier down, and Ochto straightened to look me in the eye. "Because I know nothing about kings and princes, but I know men.
Megan Whalen Turner
#27. I want to say categorically that all the vouchers that I have myself used were paid for, and I know nothing about any others that may have been abused.
Motsoko Pheko
#28. The sergeant frowned. "Really, sir? And who might they be? Is there a gang of militant atheists at work in the district, that I know nothing about? Or a guerrilla unit of disaffected campanologists, perhaps?
Paul Bassett Davies
#29. Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.
Voltaire
#30. I know nothing about mysteries. I don't take to them.
Joseph Wiseman
#31. I know nothing about and how else the Society might have altered maps over the years. There must be a world past the Enemy territory. How much has been erased and taken away?
Ally Condie
#32. To understand, I destroyed myself. To understand is to forget about loving. I know nothing more simultaneously false and telling than the statement by Leonardo da Vinci that we cannot love or hate something until we've understood it.
Fernando Pessoa
#33. I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Socrates
#34. The more I know, the more I realize I know nothing.
Socrates
#35. For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
#36. I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates
#37. But I know nothing, nothing, and can know nothing but what I've been told along with everybody else.
Leo Tolstoy
#38. I know nothing about her. Just some books, and some stories she tried to tell me, and things I didn't understand, and I remember big red soft hands and that smell. I never knew who she really was. I mean, she must have been nine too, once.
Terry Pratchett
#39. I know nothing, except what everyone knows
if there when grace dances, I should dance.
Anne Lamott
#40. If my attitude be on of fear, not faith, about the one who has disappointed me; if I say "Just what I expected," if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary Love.
Amy Carmichael
#41. Nature is full of drama. I know nothing about biology, about birds, about insects, about the details of politics. I just make movies about human interest stories.
Jacques Perrin
#42. I know nothing but my open body giving birth to words. Until the pain is over. Until the end of living. Until the end of utterance. Since they have condemned me to say what they want to forget.
Jeanne Hyvrard
#43. Boredom ... what is this foreign word you speak of, General? I fear I know nothing of it. Ash
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#44. I laughed under my breath, and it sounded bitter. "Listen to me. What am I talking about, worth it? Is any experience or bit of beauty worth the cost of my life? I know nothing but safety and self-preservation at all costs."
"And yet," he said softly, "you're risking everything to help me.
Kate Avery Ellison
#45. One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
Jostein Gaarder
#46. I want to take the time to think through how I feel and why I feel. I don't want to feign expertise on matters I know nothing about for the purpose of offering someone else my immediate reaction for their consumption.
Roxane Gay
#48. If I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary's love
Amy Carmichael
#49. Personally, I know nothing about sex, because I have always been married.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
#50. I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.
Itzhak Perlman
#51. No man knows more about women than I do, and I know nothing.
Seymour Hicks
#52. As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. And when I want to know something, I look it up in books
their memory never fails
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#53. I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.
Samuel Beckett
#54. I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life.
Janet Jackson
#55. I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.
Olivia Wilde
#56. I'm sure there's drama in their past that I know nothing about, but when someone like Juliet- colorful, beautiful, determined Juliet- begs you to love her, how do you say no?
Jessica Calla
#57. Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with them, one circle, one circle, and I stand in the midst. All is as usual. Only the Militiaman Stanislaus Katczinsky has died. Then I know nothing more.
Erich Maria Remarque
#58. Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?
Peter Tork
#59. I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
Edward Abbey
#61. I know nothing more stupid and indeed vulgar than wanting to be right.
Paul Valery
#62. The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.
Socrates
#63. I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.
Malala Yousafzai
#64. The more I teach, the more I realize that I know nothing.
Debasish Mridha
#65. And if I sometimes hear nothing for hours on end it is for reasons of which I know nothing, or because about me all goes really silent, from time to time, whereas for the righteous the tumult of the world never stops.
Samuel Beckett
#66. But I know nothing of time. I am new every day. I am born when I wake up in the morning, I grow old during the day, and I die at night when I go to sleep. It is not my fault. And I am doing so well today. I am doing so much better than I have ever done before.
Paul Auster
#67. It is many years ago and at times I know nothing about her anymore who was once all things to me but all things pass. (The Eleventh Psalm)
Bertolt Brecht
#68. No, not like this, when I have not seen you without your skin on, when I know nothing, when I am not safe. Not you, whose name all my nightmares know.
Catherynne M Valente
#69. But I know nothing; my future is a wide-open vista, leading to an unknown country - The Rest Of My Life.
Kate Atkinson
#70. You can get a bit bored of finding out about yourself. I know nothing about politics, for instance. There's nothing that's stopped me picking up a newspaper in the past, and it's something I really should start to do.
Sophia Myles
#71. The more I read, the more I learn, the more I discover that I know nothing.
Nick Dear
#72. I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.
Anne Rice
#73. If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Amy Carmichael
#74. Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.
Scott Baio
#75. I know nothing about hip-hop ... There's only so many times you can grab your crotch and prance around stage. I'm gonna get slammed now for this.
Tom Colicchio
#76. I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
#77. I know nothing," I say, cheerfully.
"You never seem to. Have you ever wondered why that is?"
"It's very deliberate. I've found that knowledge is usually a burden. I prefer to be surprised and then eventually horrified.
Matthew Norman
#78. Today, you have been inside my eyes all day.
I am confused, upside down.
You are so near and so obvious,
I feel apart from you.
I am so aware of you,
I know nothing.
Rumi
#79. I know nothing about education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.
Michel De Montaigne
#80. And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles
Walt Whitman
#81. There are a million things in music I know nothing about. I just want to narrow down that figure.
Andre Previn
#82. I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
#83. I'm a person that if I'm hooked with something then I know nothing besides that.
Junsu
#84. What can I know? Nothing for sure. What ought I to do? Try not to hurt anyone. What may I hope for? For the best (but it won't make any difference).
William Boyd
#86. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing.
Victor Hugo
#87. Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing ... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.
William Shatner
#88. My search for happiness ends at your Smiling Face because I know, nothing else in the world can make me Happier.
Anmol Rawat
#89. Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.
Joan Of Arc
#90. Don't listen to me. I'm not a politician. I know nothing about politics. But people are cheering when something very bad happens to him [Donald Trump]. So that's got to make you think before voting for him.
Sacha Baron Cohen
#91. [the best advice about women] was from Robert Evans. The line was in his book, but he told me, "When it comes to a woman's mind, I know nothing."
Slash
#92. One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.
Socrates
#93. The only thing that I know, is that I know nothing
Rene Descartes
#94. Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
Arthur C. Clarke
#95. I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.
Muhammad Ali
#96. I'm like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don't just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world.
Rick Wagoner
#97. I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#98. You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live; but, of course, I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.
Henry David Thoreau
#99. Instead of being able to look at smaller interesting research projects, I am trying to see the links between all the research NASA does. For me, that's extremely fun because I get to go play and learn about areas of science that I know nothing about.
Ellen Stofan
#100. My novel is the rock to which I cling and I know nothing of what is taking place in the world.
Gustave Flaubert
