Knowing Nothing Quotes (page 12)

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• she
• true
• genius

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing. Albert Einstein

• world
• rock
• nothing

My novel is the rock to which I cling and I know nothing of what is taking place in the world. Gustave Flaubert

• knowing
• nothing
• perhaps

I know nothing and perhaps I never will, George R. R. Martin

• together
• earth
• one day

Long ago, when an early galaxy began to pour light out into the surrounding darkness, no witness could have known that billions of years later some remote clumps of rock and metal, ice and organic molecules would fall together to make place called Earth; or that life would arise and thinking beings evolve who would one day capture a little of that galactic light, and try to puzzle out what had sent it on its way. And after the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a... Carl Sagan

• insulting
• insult
• knowingly

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about? Harper Lee

• experience
• good
• people

People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can be best taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures.—You might teach making of shoes by lectures! Samuel Johnson

• world
• law
• little

There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment," said Tempest with a bitter smile. Law and custom I know nothing of, public opinion I despise, and shame and fear I defy, for everyone has a right to be happy in their own way. Louisa May Alcott

• humanity
• hell
• manly

in order to invent heaven and hell a man would need to know nothing except the human body Jose Saramago

• knowledge
• victory
• nothing

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. Oscar Wilde

• words
• law
• learning

You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest. Lloyd Alexander

• travel
• march
• ultimate

It is often by a trivial, even an anecdotal decision, that we direct our activities into a certain channel, and thus determine which of the potential expressions of our individuality become manifest. Usually we know nothing of the ultimate orientation or of the outlet toward which we travel, and the stream sweeps us to a formula of life from which there is no returning. Every decision is like a murder, and our march forward is over the stillborn bodies of all our possible selves that will... Rene Dubos

• reading
• knowingly
• knowing

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. Voltaire

• look
• powerful
• shine

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine. Emily Dickinson

• little
• calm
• learning

We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference. Paul Elmer More

• learning
• mindset
• willed

If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before. David Moranis