Knowing Nothing Quotes (page 9)

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• miracle
• knowingly
• miracles

And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles Walt Whitman

• wise
• you me
• fanciful

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded... Edgar Allan Poe

• silence
• fear
• innocent

I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another. Erich Maria Remarque

• writing
• to live
• firsts

It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first. Betty Smith

• god
• learning
• devil

I know nothing of god or the devil. I have never learned a secret nor found a cure that would damn or save my soul. Anne Rice

• good
• thinking
• sometimes

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it. C. S. Lewis

• girl
• she
• goals

The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us. Milan Kundera

• thinking
• wonderful
• wonder

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love. Alice Walker

• wisdom
• surprise
• thinking

I wasn't thinking of Tom but of myself. And of a self who seemed to be mot 'me' but 'she.' An innocent, moving fecklessly through the days, knowing nothing, whom I saw now with awful wisdom. ... I had hesitated to make this journey, had put it off year after year but had known always that eventually it must be undertaken. And, confronted at last with the mirage -- with the shining phantom of that other time -- I was surprised to find that it was myself that was the poignant presence. Penelope Lively

• snow
• knows
• snowing

You know nothing, Jon Snow George R. R. Martin

• time
• thinking
• fruit

...anyone who thinks that all fruits ripen at the same time as strawberries, knows nothing of grapes. Paracelsus

• lost
• greatness
• hope

What’s the good of these great fragile fits of enthusiasm, these jaded jumps of joys? We know nothing anymore, but the dead stars; we gaze at their faces; and we gasp with pleasure. Our mouths are dry as the lost beaches, and our eyes turn aimlessly and without hope. Now all that remain are these cafs where we meet to drink these cool drinks, these diluted spirits, and the tables are stickier than the pavements where our shadows of the day before have fallen. Andre Breton

• personality
• personal
• personalities

Personally, I know nothing about sex, because I have always been married. Zsa Zsa Gabor

• ignorance
• ignored
• am

It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. Victor Hugo

• water
• love
• understanding

Right now I am like the unborn baby in the womb, knowing nothing except the comforting warmth of the amniotic fluid in which I swim, the comforting nourishment entering my body from a source I cannot see or understand. My whole being comes from an unseen, unknown nurturer. By that nurturer I am totally loved and protected, and that love is forever. It does not end when I am precipitated out of the safe waters of the womb into the unsafe world. It will. It end when I breathe my last, mortal... Madeleine L'Engle