Know Nothings Quotes

#1. Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."

Richard Dawkins

#2. The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win.

Warren Buffett

#3. While sitting on the hopper, in a blissful state of belieflessness, the Universe sent me this silly pun: Arrogant know-it-alls actually know nothing,
while humble know-nothings seem to know everything...

Maximus Freeman

#4. I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.

Al Goldstein

#5. The Know Nothings fought to delay citizenship for the new immigrants and bar them from voting.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#6. The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

Mignon McLaughlin

#7. Do you ever have one of those weeks where you know nothings gonna go right?

Dov Davidoff

#8. We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#9. I wouldn't perform in front of the Nazis. I hear they didn't take freedom of speech too well. It would be a fun gig to rip into them, but I don't think the ending would be great for me.

Jim Jefferies

#10. THEY WERE, WHO WE THOUGHT THEY WERE, AND WE LET'EM OFF THE HOOK!

Dennis Green

#11. CHRISTMAS DAY Jesus came! - and came for me. Simple words! and yet expressing Depths of holy mystery, Depths of wondrous love and blessing. Holy Spirit, make me see All His coming means for me; Take the things of Christ, I pray, Show them to my heart today.

Frances Ridley Havergal

#12. Before God could bring me to this place He has broken me a thousand times.

Smith Wigglesworth

#13. For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don't like me the way I am, well TOUGH BEANS! It's a free country! I don't need anyone's permission to be the way I want! This is who I am - Take it or leave it!

Bill Watterson

#14. No matter how old we become, we can acquire knowledge and use it. We can gather wisdom and profit from it. We can grow and progress and improve-and, in the process, strengthen the livs of those within our circle of influence.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#15. If you intend to be of assistance, your eye is not upon the trouble but upon the assistance, and that is quite different. When you are looking for a solution, you are feeling positive emotion, but when you are looking at a problem, you are feeling negative emotion.

Esther Hicks

#16. What silly little things sometimes take on meaning in life, suddenly, out of nowhere. And you know they're little nothings, and you laugh at them, but all the same, you go on feeling them, you can't stop ...

Sarah Ruhl

#17. He doesn't know if the words they are using actually mean the things they purport to mean or whether the words have taken on a new significance. They are talking about nothing, after all. And yet these words, these nothings, are all they have, and he wishes there were whole dictionaries of them.

Rachel Joyce

#18. I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.

Jason Reitman

#19. The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country.

Stephen Kinzer

#20. Sure. Waffles are fine. How come you didn't ask me what I wanted?" "I'm asking you now." "They're fine," Janine said again. Sighing, she turned back to the computer. I stuck my tongue out at her and ran downstairs. "Waffles are fine!" I told Mimi.

Ann M. Martin