I Quotes
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“I know of no soil better adapted to the growth of reform than American soil,” [Frederick] Douglass said after the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision in 1857. “I know of no country where the conditions for affecting great changes in the settled order of things, for the development of right ideas of liberty and humanity, are more favorable than here in these United States.”
Source: The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
“I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.”
“I know of no such thing as genius, genius is nothing but labor and diligence.”
“I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.”
Source: Emerson's Complete Works
“I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.”
Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts
“I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no drums; but where they are men learn that bustle and push are not the equals of quiet genius and serene mastery.”
“I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.”
“I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.”
“I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else.”
“I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs.”
“I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.”
“I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in- and I am sure my dinners are good enough for her, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
“I know of nobody who is purely autistic, or purely neurotypical. Even God has some autistic moments, which is why the planets spin.”
“I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney, and I know many Democrats that don't even want to be in the same city - forget the same stage - with President Obama.”
“I know of nothing else in medicine that can come close to what a plant-based diet can do. In theory, if everyone were to adopt this, I really believe we can cut health care costs by seventy to eighty percent. That's amazing. And it all comes from understanding nutrition, applying nutrition, and just watching the results.”
“I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.”
Source: John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth
“I know of nothing more exciting than war.”
“I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.”
“I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.”
“I know of nothing more significant than the awakening of men and women throughout our country to the desire to improve their houses. Call it what you will - awakening, development, American Renaissance - it is a most startling and promising condition of affairs.”
Source: The House in Good Taste
“I know of nothing more terrible than the poor creatures who have learned too much. Instead of the sound powerful judgement which would probably have grown up if they had learned nothing, their thoughts creep timidly and hypnotically after words, principles and formulae, constantly by the same paths. What they have acquired is a spider's web of thoughts too weak to furnish sure supports, but complicated enough to provide confusion.”
Source: Popular Scientific Lectures
“I know of nothing more useful to you than four matters: surrender to Allah, to humbly entreat Him, to think the best of Him, and to perpetually renew your repentance to Him, even if you should repeat as in seventy times in a day.”
“I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.”
“I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.”
Source: A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
“I know of nothing that can kill love more successfully than negligence.”
“I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief.”
“I know of nothing to compare with the welcome a dog gives you when you come home.”
Source: The book of Stillmeadow
“I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.”
Source: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series
“I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating such a quest with attempting to find meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines on the palms of one's hand.”
Source: The secret books
“I know of only a few truisms, one being [that] if your parents didn't have children, you won't have children. Another is whenever you make a strength program easier, you will get weaker.”
“I know of only one composer who measures up to Beethoven, and that is Bruckner.”
“I know of only one country, at least to my knowledge, which has a dissident culture where leading figures, I mean, the most famous writers, journalists, academics and so on, are not only critical of state policy, but are constantly carrying out civil disobedience and risking imprisonment and often being imprisoned, standing up for people's rights. That's Turkey.”
“I know of only one duty, and that is to love.”
“I know of only one power, and that is the power of love.”
“I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields.”
“I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.”
“I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.”
“I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.”
“I know of people whose actions and words I admire and respect. Some are called "intellectuals," some are not.”
“I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law of Frequency of Error." The law would have been personified by the Greeks and deified, if they had known of it. It reigns with serenity and in complete self-effacement, amidst the wildest confusion. The huger the mob, and the greater the apparent anarchy, the more perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of Unreason.”
“I know of several children and adults (with Asperger’s Syndrome) who have reported a considerable reduction in visual sensitivity and sensory overload when wearing Irlen lenses.”
“I know of the leafy paths that the witches take
Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool,
And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“I know of three ways to recognize another writer: Writers are shamelessly nosy. Writers tell good stories, even about dumb old, daily things. On most writers, the earmarks of thrift, if not outright povery, are evident.”
“I know of two tragic histories in the world - that of Ireland, and that of Macedonia. Both of them have been deprived and tormented”
“I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren.”
Source: A Man Without a Country
“I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names.”
Source: White Is for Witching
“I know Okay, Sorry. I am. Look, I'm human. It's hard to be fair sometimes. We don't always feel the right thing, do the right thing”
Source: The Host
“I know on which side my bread is buttered.”
Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...
“I know one day I'll be considered too old.”
“I know one day I'll be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try there is a cultural moment, but eventually that window's gone, your time on Earth is finished, and you might as well leave. I could absolutely die tomorrow - I would not care. I feel like I've lived, I feel like I've had a great life.”