Quotes by Knowing Nothing Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your own family, perhaps, loving, anxious, and knowing nothing whatever . . . Minnie Maddern Fiske knowing-nothinganxietyfriendship The strangest of our powers Naz?m Hikmet knowing-nothingdiesknowing I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment. Pat Conroy knowing-nothingpassionatebottles The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful. Oscar Wilde knowing-nothingtryinglife I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing. Then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive, one that my pencil will be able to hold without technique. Paul Klee knowing-nothingdrawingwork-out I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe. Paul Klee knowing-nothingeuropehistory 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. Rahki knowing-nothingrealideas 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. Socrates knowing-nothingclaimsmen I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know. Socrates knowing-nothingfancymen Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world. Socrates knowing-nothingmenworld To know, is to know that you know nothing. Socrates true-knowledgeknowing-nothingknows I know one thing, that I know nothing. Socrates ancient-greekknowing-nothingknows We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith. Stephen King knowing-nothingfaithfall 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. Stewart Cink knowing-nothinggolfkids The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome. Tibor Kalman knowing-nothingsuccessfulperfect A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption. Thomas Jefferson knowing-nothinggovernmentignorance 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. Will Oldham knowing-nothingtakenorder«12
