Top 100 Knows Nothing Quotes
#1. I really do think with my pen, because my head often knows nothing about what my hand is writing.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#2. Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.
Wendell Phillips
#3. A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.
Northrop Frye
#4. God knows nothing we don't know.
We gave him every word he ever said.
Stephen Dunn
#5. When the universe has crushed him man will still be nobler than that which kills him, because he knows that he is dying, and of its victory the universe knows nothing.
Will Durant
#7. As anyone who lived through the 1990s knows, nothing shrinks our deficits faster than a growing economy.
Denis McDonough
#8. How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas our greatest happinesses spring from such longings-being in love with one who is oblivious of you.
Joyce Carol Oates
#9. Pat O'Brien knows nothing. He's on the Hell express.
Rob Corddry
#10. She ... can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.
Oscar Wilde
#12. Anyone who thinks that all fruits ripen at the same time as strawberries, knows nothing of grapes.
Paracelsus
#13. He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
Jonathan Edwards
#14. To those that are not accustomed to it the inner beauty appears as ugliness because humanity in general inclines to the outer and knows nothing of the inner.
Wassily Kandinsky
#15. Violence against women in this country is not levied against just Democrats, but Republicans as well ... not just rich people or poor people. It knows no gender, it knows no ethnicity, it knows nothing.
Gwen Moore
#16. Courage lays within easy reach of a child who knows nothing of how easily understanding can unravel, leaving a set of rules that apply to nothing, and an empty heart.
Sonja Yoerg
#17. Knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius, and
Arthur Conan Doyle
#18. Jesus invested everything he had in a team. The Bible knows nothing about solo ministry, only team ministry.
Leonard Sweet
#19. Hide your feelings, hide you thoughts, hide your self from the world but dont hide you from you cause only you know where you stand & the world's knows nothing
Shujoy Chowdhury
#20. As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes.
Mem Fox
#21. He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw
#22. The men leaned back on their heels, put their hands in their trousers-pockets, and proclaimed their views with the booming profundity of a prosperous male repeating a thoroughly hackneyed statement about a matter of which he knows nothing whatever.
Sinclair Lewis
#23. On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.
Anthony Trollope
#24. What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.
William Gilmore Simms
#25. I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.
Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
#26. I have come to believe that mankind eternally hovers on the brinks of secret oceans of which it knows nothing.
Robert E. Howard
#27. The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
Oscar Wilde
#28. Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.
William Alfred Quayle
#29. Why is the eye considered a reliable judge when it knows nothing of love or intelligence?
Richelle E. Goodrich
#30. A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.
Julianna Baggott
#31. The heart knows nothing of the past, nothing of the future; it knows only of the present.
Rajneesh
#32. When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.
P.D. Ouspensky
#33. Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.
Saint Basil
#34. Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Claude Levi-Strauss
#36. Intuition: the feeling one knows something when one knows nothing.
Marty Rubin
#37. The most ignorant young man, who knows nothing of the needs of women, thinks himself a competent legislator, because he is a man," Pankhurst told the crowd, eyeing the Harvard men. "This aristocratic attitude is a mistake.
Jill Lepore
#38. President Reagan is a lot like E.T. He's cute, he's lovable, and he knows nothing about how Americans live.
Elayne Boosler
#39. You are all alike, you people. You never learn the truth
that God knows nothing.
Graham Greene
#40. And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing worth mentioning about the subjects he represents, and that art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously.
Plato
#41. If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself.
Horace Pippin
#42. It's such a noble word, unconditional. Brave. Blindly committing to situations it knows nothing about.
Louise Gornall
#43. The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of the most important dimension of human existence: the sacred, the stillness, the formless, the divine.
Eckhart Tolle
#44. The fact is that fairness is a human concept. The rest of the universe knows nothing of it.
Max Gunther
#45. The world knows nothing of you. That is my gift to you. You are no one.
Mark Allen Smith
#46. Which is the best man to deal with,-he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?
Henry David Thoreau
#47. I wanted to show life and to see ourselves and our behaviour through an outsider's eye ... from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about being a human being ... He doesn't have the feelings that the rest of us do.
Jeff Lindsay
#48. What if I have it all upside down? What if I'm the one who knows nothing of God, and the people in the world are actually interceding on my behalf with their ordinary daily struggles
Mark Salzman
#49. Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.
Louis L'Amour
#50. Someone has said that Satan knows nothing of true pleasure and satisfaction, that he is an expert only in amusements. David had learned the difference, and we would do well to imitate him. True pleasure comes from knowing God, being known by God, and being at rest in His presence.
David Jeremiah
#51. The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph Addison
#53. My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child - one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that.
Dorothy Allison
#55. A man is valued by how sincere he is, and a man is also valued by how much he knows. But if a man knows nothing, he will be regarded a fool, no matter how sincere he is.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#56. Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently.
Jean De La Bruyere
#57. The city man, in his neon-and-mazda glare, knows nothing of nature's midnight. His electric lamps surround him with synthetic sunshine. They push back the dark. They defend him from the realities of the age-old night.
Edwin Way Teale
#58. God knows nothing gets accomplished in the world these days without terrorism.
Manil Suri
#59. Their [the new atheists] treatment of the religious viewpoint is pathetic to the point of non-being. Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion would fail any introductory philosophy or religion course. Proudly he criticizes that whereof he knows nothing.
Michael Ruse
#60. Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to do harm. As his war-strewn presidency shows, George Bush knows nothing about ahimsa and non-violence. Bush should reconsider this cynical, disrespectful display of symbolism.
Kevin Martin
#62. The sinking of the Gustloff is the largest maritime disaster, yet the world still knows nothing of it. I often wonder, will that ever change or will it remain just another secret swallowed by war? You
Ruta Sepetys
#63. He who asserts belief with absolute certainty knows nothing of faith and makes himself into a fool. He who is wise, upon realizing they have done this, recants and searches themselves for further enlightenment.
Cristina Marrero
#64. Thus, as far as he is a scientific man, as far as he knows anything, he is a materialist; outside his science, in spheres about which he knows nothing, he translates his ignorance into Greek and calls it agnosticism.
Friedrich Engels
#65. I object to being called a chess genius, because I consider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he is like an idiot savant, outside of chess he knows nothing.
Bobby Fischer
#66. Philosophers say the Soul is double-faced, her upper face gazes at God all the time and her lower face looks somewhat down, informing the senses; and the upper face, which is the summit of the soul, is in eternity and has nothing to do with time: it knows nothing of time or of body.
Meister Eckhart
#67. Our reality teaches us that, as Christians, we must create a Church of the poor, that we don't need a Church imposed from outside which knows nothing of hunger.
Rigoberta Menchu
#68. You'll often hear the phrase "science doesn't know everything." Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean that it knows nothing.
Stephen Fry
#70. Any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek.
Suzy Kassem
#71. Nobody knows nothing for sure. If they say they do, they're either a preacher or selling something. Deal
Daniel H. Wilson
#72. The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#73. I have often thought that however learned you may talk about it, one knows nothing but what he learns from his own experience.
[Ger., Da dacht ich oft: schwatzt noch so hoch gelehrt,
Man weiss doch nichts, als was man selbst erfahrt.]
Christoph Martin Wieland
#74. the beginning of wisdom is in realizing that one knows nothing, then the beginning of understanding is in realizing that all things exist in accord with a single truth: Large things are made of smaller things. Drops
Jim Butcher
#75. An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little.
Anton Chekhov
#76. He who knows nothing, loves nothing.
He who can do nothing understands nothing.
He who understands nothing is worthless.
Paracelsus
#77. The world tells us that our children's success depends upon our success. The world knows nothing of God's ability to use our failures as means to bless. "What is impossible with men is possible with God" (Luke 18:27).
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#78. The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal
#79. Time passes cold and indifferent over us; it knows nothing of our joys or sorrows; it leads us with ice-cold hand deeper and deeper into the labyrinth.
Johann Ludwig Tieck
#80. He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas Jefferson
#82. It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.
Friedrich Schiller
#83. This is how the darkness is. It knows nothing else. It fills crevices, pushing into the finest, narrowest corners, ascribing no meaning to the events that it carries, but birthing and then swallowing them again as they expire.
Jason Gurley
#85. O God, for as much as without Thee We are not enabled to doubt Thee, Help us all by Thy grace To convince the whole race It knows nothing whatever about Thee.
Ronald Knox
#86. The artist labors while he may, But finds at best too brief the day; And, tho' his works outlast the time And nation that they make sublime, He feels and sees that Nature knows Nothing of time in what she does, But has a leisure infinite Wherein to do her work aright.
Henry Abbey
#87. Foolish. Stupid. I knew it. I knew my reaction was unreasonable, bu the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal said that, and I've always found it to be true.
Megan Hart
#88. Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?
Honore De Balzac
#89. Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
W. Edwards Deming
#90. A world of little cares is continually arising, which busy or affluent life knows nothing of, to open the first door to distress. Hunger is not among the postponable wants; and a day, even a few hours, in such a condition is often the crisis of a life of ruin.
Thomas Paine
#91. A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.
Stanley Kunitz
#92. When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one way or another, even though he knows nothing about the visible church. His kind of Christianity may not be socially desirable, but will be real in the sight of God.
Flannery O'Connor
#93. The Bible knows nothing of any contrast between truth and experience, head and heart, theology and practical living.
Michael S. Horton
#94. Anyone who has not experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
Jean Genet
#96. Anyone will be glad to admit that he knows nothing about beagling, or the Chinese stock market, or ballistics, but there is not a man or woman alive who does not claim to know how to cure hiccoughs.
Robert Benchley
#97. For he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.
Plato
#98. A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.
Carlos Castaneda
#99. The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.
Albert Einstein
#100. The priests talk of consecrated ground! Bah! All the earth made by God is holy; but the sea, which knows nothing of kings and priests and tyrants, is the holiest of all.
Joseph Conrad
