Quotes by Knowing Nothing One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey. Alfred Lord Tennyson knowing-nothing obedience knowing The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling. Becca Fitzpatrick knowing-nothing scary knowing There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all. Ben Horowitz knowledge-gained knowing-nothing shortcuts 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. Beryl Markham knowing-nothing integrity war If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can. Chuck Palahniuk knowing-nothing real fun Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the past, they kept fresh and intact their enthusiasm for 'the latest thing'. Fashion dominated their interest: they valued ideas not for themselves but for the prestige that they could wring from them. Claude Levi-Strauss knowing-nothing fashion past 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. David Lynch knowing-nothing world thinking Knowing isn't doing; doing isn't knowing. Nothing but the knowing and the doing gets it done. Felix Dennis knowing-nothing done knowing I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time. F. Scott Fitzgerald knowing-nothing tired knowing I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness. Gloria Estefan knowing-nothing childhood sadness You know nothing, Jon Snow George R. R. Martin knowing-nothing fire song A man who says “I have learned enough and will learn no further” should be considered as knowing nothing at all. Haile Selassie knowing-nothing enough men You said that the mind is like the wind but perhaps it is we who are like the wind Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying. Haruki Murakami knowing-nothing mind wind 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. Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire knowing-nothing eye names You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer. Jeffrey Eugenides always-knowing knowing-nothing forever He watched a catbird hopping around in an azalea that was readying itself to bloom; he envied the bird for knowing nothing of what he knew; he would have swapped souls with it in a heartbeat. And then to take wing, to know the air's buoyancy even for an hour: the trad was a no-brainer, and the catbird, with its lively indifference to him, its sureness of physical selfhood, seemed well aware of how preferable it was to be the bird. Jonathan Franzen azaleas knowing-nothing air 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! Manly Hall knowing-nothing ignorance men I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything. Mayim Bialik knowing-nothing knowing trying There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. Maya Angelou knowing-nothing life-lesson believe 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. Michael LeBoeuf knowing-nothing wall media 12»