Knowing Nothing Quotes (page 3)

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• black
• manly
• hard

It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period Alice Walker

• wonder
• chance
• strength

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more. William Least Heat-Moon

• people
• she
• saying

It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered. Emily Bronte

• waiting
• saying
• live

Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything. Philip Levine

• silence
• change
• red

[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the refrigerator will cluck and drop an ice cube, the automatic dishwasher will sigh through its changes, a plane will drone over, the nearest freeway will vibrate the air. Red and white lights will pass in the sky, lights will shine along highways and glance off windows. There is always a radio that can be turned to some all-night station, or a television... Wallace Stegner

• understanding
• understand
• knowingly

I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized. Rafael Sabatini

• learning
• wishes
• author

When the Professor is told by the Polynesian that once there was nothing except a great feathered serpent, unless the learned man feels a thrill and a half temptation to wish it were true, he is no judge of such things at all. When he is assured, on the best Red Indian authority, that a primitive hero carried the sun and moon and stars in a box, unless he clasps his hands and almost kicks his legs as a child would at such a charming fancy, he knows nothing about the matter. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• marriage
• wedding
• evening

I don't know nothing about no marriages or nothing. I ain't even never been to a wedding. Mike Epps

• saying
• says
• truthfully

If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing. Harri Holkeri

• education
• play
• violin

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day. Itzhak Perlman

• football
• footballer
• republican

I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I'm not a Republican. Sandra Bullock

• about
• knowingly
• nothing

I don't know nothing about nothing. Danny Bautista

• make
• makes
• smartest

And in knowing that you know nothing makes you the smartest of all. Socrates

• learning
• knows
• learns

The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing. Ayn Rand

• thinking
• to live
• bad

To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think. Fernando Pessoa