Best knowing & knowing-nothing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Idylls of the King

“The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after.”

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Author:Benito Mussolini

“A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it.”

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Author:David Lynch

“I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.”

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Author:Gloria Estefan

“A man who says “I have learned enough and will learn no further” should be considered as knowing nothing at all.”

Men Should Enough Knowing I Have Learned Knowing Nothing

Author:Haile Selassie

“But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm that no outsider, unless steeped from childhood in its endless, even beat, can ever hope to experience it, except only as a bystander might experience a Masai war dance knowing nothing of its music nor the meaning of its steps.”

War Soul Might Life Is Steps Knowing Childhood Integrity Beats Endless Rhythm Outsiders Pulse Inexorable Bystanders Knowing Nothing Masai

Book:West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

“Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.”

Art Form Knowing Ballet Knowing Nothing

Author:Robert Gottlieb

“To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smarter than you, who claim to know nothing.”

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Author:Socrates

“You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.”

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Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“At the same time, you don't want to be blindsided at some point because you've taken too much comfort from knowing nothing. So you try to keep a little store of practical knowledge. At a certain point you have to pretend that something is true in order to have a relationship with the world.”

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Author:Will Oldham

“Turn your eyes whither you will, enter into whatever temple you please, you will find there on the very threshold Prophecy and Sacrament .... whoever despises these two things, infallibly bends towards earth, knowing nothing of God but his name, and holding with him no other relations than ingratitude and forgetfulness.”

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Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

“Ignorance of ignorance, then, is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man, knowing nothing outside the limited area of his physical senses, bumptiously declares there is nothing more to know!”

Knows Men Self States Knowing Ignorance Areas Senses Satisfied Knowing Nothing Unawareness

Book:The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy

Source: The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy

“My kids have grown up knowing nothing other than me being gone all the time and playing in golf tournaments. That's what they know.”

Knows Kids Gone Knowing Golf Tournaments Knowing Nothing Golf Tournaments

Author:Stewart Cink

“Knowing isn't doing; doing isn't knowing. Nothing but the knowing and the doing gets it done.”

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Author:Felix Dennis

“Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.”

Knows Men World Knowing Nobody Knows Knowing Nothing

Author:Socrates

“When I first starting making beats, I didn't know samples were being used in any beats. I had no idea where producers were getting the real string sounds or the voices on their tracks. I knew nothing about loops or sampling off of records. So, by me knowing nothing about this it made me concentrate on my chords on the keyboard.”

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Author:Rahki

“Knowing nothing about investing might be a benefit. You won't have to unlearn many popular beliefs propagated by Wall Street and the media that aren't true.”

Might Belief Knowing Streets Media Wall Benefits Investing Passive Unlearn Knowing Nothing

Book:The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

Source: The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

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