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  • Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it. -- Robert Gottlieb
  • I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything. -- Mayim Bialik
  • There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. -- Maya Angelou
  • Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight. -- Pico Iyer
  • A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. -- Maya Angelou
  • To know is knowing nothing -- Gladys Adevey
  • The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
  • One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
  • I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe. -- Paul Klee
  • I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world. -- Socrates
  • The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Ignorance is the worst liberation. To know even a few is better than knowing nothing at all. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
  • I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness. -- Gloria Estefan
  • A man who says "I have learned enough and will learn no further" should be considered as knowing nothing at all. -- Haile Selassie
  • There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. -- Maya Angelou
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The past and the future were starlight, seemingly so close, but forever out of reach. Eli felt that starlight, the infinity of knowing nothing but his finite existence. -- Daniel J. Rice
  • 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
  • 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
  • But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that. -- Aaron Eckhart
  • 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
  • Born in Kansas City, Missouri, and knowing nothing about Picasso, I had the audacity to knock on his door, became his friend, and took thousands of photographs, of him, his studios, his life and his friends. -- David Douglas Duncan
  • 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
  • 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
  • I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to me that, having read nothing and knowing nothing, I was in no position to write a book. -- Peter Carey
  • 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
  • She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except that they couldn't possibly be happy with any of the choices the world seemed to be offering them. -- Tom Perrotta
  • 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
  • Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two. -- Lynsay Sands
  • Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested-and you're not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need. -- Carl Sagan
  • They are so knowing, that they know nothing. -- Terence
  • True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. -- Socrates
  • The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. -- Socrates
  • As an actress, there's nothing worse than not knowing your cues. -- Kristin Davis
  • There's nothing worse than seeing your teammates battle, knowing you can't help. -- Nelson Cruz
  • Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease. -- Jamie Wyeth
  • Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all? -- Jean Racine
  • Nothing enables us to forgive like knowing in our hearts that we have been forgiven. -- Lewis B. Smedes
  • There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together. -- Feist
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  • Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. -- Theodor Adorno
  • Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde
  • All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing. -- D. H. Lawrence
  • It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.' -- Zadie Smith
  • What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God. -- Rick Warren
  • Nothing worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing. -- Leslie Jamison
  • Nothing limits you like not knowing your limitations. -- Tom Hayes
  • nothing that is worth knowing can be taught -- Oscar Wilde
  • Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind. -- Woody Allen
  • Knowing that everything is possible suddenly nothing is necessary. -- Diana Gabaldon
  • Nothing worth knowing can ever be taught in a classroom. -- Chip Kidd
  • There is nothing more worthwhile than knowing that you know -- Gino Norris
  • There is nothing more worthwhile than knowing that you know... -- Gino Norris
  • The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Fight death all your days, and die knowing you know nothing. -- Ardel Wray
  • To have strength without knowing how to use it means nothing. -- Gail Tsukiyama
  • Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it. -- Aulus Persius Flaccus
  • There's nothing wrong with knowing what you want and going after it. -- Hillary Clinton
  • man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • Knowing that you are nothing is Wisdom, Knowing that you are everything is Love. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
  • ...there is nothing unforgivable and there are no secrets before an all-knowing merciful God. -- J.E.B. Spredemann
  • There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing -- Mark Twain
  • There's nothing more calming in difficult moments that knowing there's some one fighting with you. -- Mother Teresa
  • Knowing isn't doing; doing isn't knowing. Nothing but the knowing and the doing gets it done. -- Felix Dennis
  • Nothing ruins a good thing quite like knowing you share your opinions with mindless little tits. -- Yahtzee Croshaw
  • The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read. -- Jacques Ellul
  • It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same. -- Sarah Turnbull
  • Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages. -- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
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  • To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life. -- Rajneesh
  • Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
  • The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true. -- Naz?m Hikmet
  • Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
  • There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor. -- Richelle Mead
  • Nothing makes me want to obey more than knowing that God unconditionally loves me and forgives me even when I disobey. -- Tullian Tchividjian
  • If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new. -- Eamon Duffy
  • You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am... Carry on. -- Charles M. Schulz
  • True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all. -- Socrates
  • The very fact that a holy, eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, merciful, fair, and just God loves you and me is nothing short of astonishing. -- Francis Chan
  • They are young and life has no limits. Nothing is impossible, nothing beyond doing or knowing. The world is theirs and everything in it. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
  • ...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all. -- Saint John Chrysostom
  • Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. -- Savielly Tartakower
  • Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more. -- Annie Dillard
  • To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right and what's wrong. -- Tibor Kalman
  • Nothing may change in days or in years or all can change in hours and in seconds! Knowing this means that you already know many things! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
  • Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • 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
  • A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader's great experience. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
  • It does not matter whether you have religion or are an agnostic believe in nothing, You can only appreciate (without knowing or understanding) the mysteries of life. -- Jack Kornfield
  • Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing-sicknes s, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death--can take that love away. -- Henri Nouwen
  • Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it. -- John Major
  • There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs. -- Diana Nyad
  • 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
  • the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything) -- Toni Morrison
  • We cultivate a very small field for Christ, but we love it, knowing that God does not require great achievements but a heart that holds back nothing for self. -- Rose Philippine Duchesne
  • There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated. -- Oswald Chambers
  • There's nothing more noble than a father and mother making an opportunity for their child, knowing that their life is gonna be hard. There's something incredibly heroic about that. -- Kevin Costner
  • There is nothing better - nothing - than knowing that the risen Christ lives right now in heaven, singing over his people - singing over me - with love. -- Reggie M. Kidd
  • The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant.One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant,because he knows that the body is nothing. -- Swami Vivekananda
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