Top 100 Know Nothing Quotes
#1. Remember, in the heyday of vitalism, people said that when all the data are in about cells and how they work, we will still know nothing about the life force - about the basic difference between being alive and not being alive.
Patricia Churchland
#2. Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything.
Philip Levine
#3. Hunter and hunted. There are so many ways in which a man can destroy a woman." Her handmaid sighed. "When it comes to matters of the heart, immortals know nothing.
Paula Altenburg
#4. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing.
Victor Hugo
#6. You know nothing about me, and nothing about the sort of love which I am capable.
Charlotte Bronte
#7. There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of my mind like a shower of rain, and I am gripped for a moment in paralysed dismay, waiting for it all to come back but with no certainty that it will.
John Banville
#8. Many of us know nothing other than a directionless cadence, having left the footprints of our lives meandering down a road that's meandering itself.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#9. Those who don't read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.
Thomas Jefferson
#11. Public opinion actually applauds the young woman venturing into the business world, but it still obstinately (and quite illogically) protects the young man in his sacred right to know nothing of housework.
Crystal Eastman
#12. 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
#13. I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.
Brad Holland
#14. The beginning of war is similar to the beginning of peace - the world and the heart know nothing about it.
Albert Camus
#15. Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#16. 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
#17. Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing.
Ellen G. White
#18. 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
#19. It is a fool who lives his life believing the waves upon which he sails shall remember him. The seas know nothing. This makes them beautiful. And this makes them terrible. - DREYLING PROVERB, ORIGIN
Robert Jackson Bennett
#20. None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.
David Guterson
#21. I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.
Samuel Beckett
#22. I'd venture to guess that a list of things you know nothing about could fill volumes.
Heidi Schulz
#23. 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
#24. I don't know nothing about birthing puppies, Miss Scarlett, but I can cleave the head off a Daimon without breaking a sweat. (Valerius)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#25. No man knows more about women than I do, and I know nothing.
Seymour Hicks
#26. I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.
Itzhak Perlman
#27. We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy
#28. Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.
George Bernard Shaw
#29. There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet know nothing of his character, his inmost tastes arid feelings.
William Matthews
#30. Personally, I know nothing about sex, because I have always been married.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
#31. If I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary's love
Amy Carmichael
#32. And just look at these men: their eye saith it - they know nothing better on earth than to be with a woman.
Filth is at the bottom of their souls; and alas! If their filth hath spirit in it!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#33. I don't beef with people, because I don't be around people. Nobody can't say nothing about me, because ain't nobody know nothing about me.
Fetty Wap
#34. The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
Nat King Cole
#35. The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.
Aristotle.
#36. The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about, yet refuse to investigate.
Wayne Dyer
#37. We think ... that girls ought to sing. They ought to sing, and dance while they're singing. But we are not girls, and so can be almost certain that we know nothing about the matter.
Catherynne M Valente
#38. Many of those who refer to Orwell seem not to have read much more than Animal Farm and Nineteen-Eighty-Four, if those. The millions who have heard of Big Brother and Room 101 know nothing of their progenitor.
Peter Davidson
#39. If we aren't living our lives doing what we are meant to be doing, and what we were essentially created to bring to the planet, the universe is going to let us know. Nothing will be working in our favor, nothing will ever seem to go right, and we will exist in a miserable robotic lifestyle.
J. Goldenberg
#41. 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
#42. When you know you know nothing, an air of openness and humility prevails. Then real understanding enters the mind.
Mooji
#43. I love you, man. You rule! Thanks for the food. It touches me deep in my tender place. (Sway) I don't want to know nothing about your tender place, you freak. (Devyn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#44. Nietzsche once said "that for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts." I didn't believe that, but to willfully defy the quote was to tempt fate - and if to find it true, to know nothing remained but emptiness.
Ron Rash
#45. One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
Jostein Gaarder
#46. Well, I don't have anything to say to Mr. Sneddon, you know? Nothing at all.
Tito Jackson
#47. Like those proverbial bookish men who could not even tell types of grains apart, they do not labor with their hands, and know nothing practical. They
Liu Cixin
#48. You know nothing of me." Through clenched teeth. "Nothing. You've fucked me, that's all. Well, that's a crowded hole you're in, darling. And us humans, we're a lying, dissembling bunch, remember. Doesn't pay to trust us between the sheets any more than anywhere else.
Richard K. Morgan
#49. 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
#50. Cool parents, I thought, are the ones who know nothing. It made me feel a little sad for mine, but I didn't say any of this.
John Darnielle
#51. Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyes see nothing save their own unlovely woe, Whose minds know nothing, nothing care to know ...
Oscar Wilde
#52. By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.
Warren Buffett
#53. You ordinary people who read and do not write, who 'like to read' and know nothing of the sufferings of writers, how fortunate you are!
Joyce Carol Oates
#54. as she slept, her period came because bodies know nothing about timing, bodies, awful bodies. They put a Rorschach between your thighs and stain your sheets to remind you that all you're doing is bleeding and dying if you're not making more life. That
Catherine Lacey
#55. To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.
Confucius
#56. If you think you know everything; you know nothing. If you think you know nothing; you know something.
Jayce O'Neal
#57. Boredom ... what is this foreign word you speak of, General? I fear I know nothing of it. Ash
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#58. They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
Adam Clarke
#59. She knew you'd know nothing sweeter than the love I give you."
"Was she right?"
"Absolutely.
Kristen Ashley
#60. A man who knows what other men know,know nothing for they all know the same
Alchemist
#61. I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.
Timbaland
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
Oscar Wilde
#66. Hearts know nothing of time-not age or length of acquaintance. They know only what they need.
Jayne Rylon
#67. I know nothing, except what everyone knows
if there when grace dances, I should dance.
Anne Lamott
#68. 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
#69. It's no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,' she muttered.
Emily Bronte
#70. But I know nothing, nothing, and can know nothing but what I've been told along with everybody else.
Leo Tolstoy
#71. I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates
#72. Of our pasts we seemed to know all we needed to know. Nothing was concealed, and though nothing was overtly revealed, all was known. In guilt and in forgiveness we counted ourselves equals, and always had. The sun himself envied us.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#73. For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
#74. The more I know, the more I realize I know nothing.
Socrates
#75. You don't want me. How could you? You know nothing about me.
Maya Banks
#76. I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Socrates
#77. The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
Arthur Young
#78. 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
#79. Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.
Desiderius Erasmus
#80. Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.
William Hazlitt
#81. We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.
Albert Einstein
#82. 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
#83. I know nothing about mysteries. I don't take to them.
Joseph Wiseman
#85. Pretend you know nothing, and you will learn everything.
Me
#87. Iyther you dont know nothing or you know too much it dont seam like theres any thing in be twean.
Russell Hoban
#89. 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
#90. We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
Abraham Lincoln
#91. Of course I loved him.' I walked toward the window. 'We were best friends.'
'You know that's not what I meant.'
'You don't know what you mean,' I said. 'Because you know nothing about love.
Amber Dermont
#94. Scio me nihil scire" - I know that I know nothing
Socrates
#95. We should go straight west. The prophecy said west."
"Oh, like your tracking skills are better?" Thalia growled.
Zoe stepped toward her. "You challenge my skills, you scullion? You know nothing of being a Hunter!"
"Oh, scullion. You're calling me a scullion? What the heck is a scullion?
Rick Riordan
#96. 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
#97. I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.
Sarah Moore Grimke
#98. God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.
John Adams
#99. Rather know nothing than half-know many things! Rather be a fool on one's own account than a wise man in the opinion of others!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#100. Not being a liberal, I have very little grasp of things that I know nothing about.
P. J. O'Rourke
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