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Proverb
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| "A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything,
should conceal it as well as she can." | |
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Jane Austen
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| "And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of
all." | |
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Socrates
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| "And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying All we did
not know." | |
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William Rose Benét
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| "Better know nothing than half-know many things." | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "He knew what "s what, and that "s as high As metaphysic wit can
fly." | |
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Samuel Butler
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| "He who knows himself knows his Lord. This Lord is not the impersonal
self, nor is it the God of dogmatic definitions, self-subsisting without
relation to me, without being experienced by me. He is the he who knows
himself through myself, that is, in the knowledge that I have of him,
because it is the knowledge that he has of me...." | |
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Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn al-`Arabi
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| "I know not, I ask not, if guilt "s in that heart, I but know that I
love thee whatever thou art." | |
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Charles Lamb
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| "If you don"t know what you want to do it"s harder to do it." | |
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Malcolm S. Forbes
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| "Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law,
but because ?tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how
to confute him." | |
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John Selden
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| "In life, it is not what you know or who you know that counts ? it is
both!" | |
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| "Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to
un-know." | |
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Sir Richard Francis Burton
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| "It ain"t what we don"t know that gives us trouble, it"s what we know
that ain"t so." | |
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Will Rogers
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| "It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know
nothing." | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "It"s always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether
you want him or whether you don"t." | |
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Alan Alexander Milne
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| "It"s what you learn after you know it all ? that counts." | |
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John Wooden
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| "Know thyself." | |
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Carl Linnaeus
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| "Nobody knows enough, but many too much." | |
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Marie L. von Erner-Eschenbach
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| "Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty
truth? He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this?that he
knew nothing yet." | |
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Aphra Behn
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| "One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up
before you get it." | |
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Sidney Howard
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| "Only the shallow know themselves." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know
much say little." | |
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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| "Since knowledge is but sorrow?s spy, It is not safe to know." | |
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Sir William Davenant
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| "Something unknown is doing we don"t know what." | |
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Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
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| "Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a
damn." | |
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Gore Vidal
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| "The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected." | |
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Cousin Woodman
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| "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." | |
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William James
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| "The Master said, Yu, shall I tell you what knowledge is? When you
know a thing, to know that you know it, and when you do not know a thing,
to recognize that you do not know it. That is knowledge." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has
not." | |
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Publilius Syrus
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| "The more you know the less you need to say." | |
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Jim Rohn
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| "The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what
a person does with what he knows." | |
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Laurence Lee
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| "There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there
are two kinds of people in the world and those who don"t." | |
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Robert Charles Benchley
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| "To know all things is not permitted." | |
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
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| "Two rules of success in life: 1. Don"t tell people everything you
know." | |
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Unknown
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| "Whatever is unknown is magnified." | |
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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| "Who knows for what we live, struggle and die?... Wise men write many
books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives,
the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom." | |
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Alan Paton
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| "Who knows most, doubts most." | |
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Robert Browning
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| "You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than
enough." | |
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William Blake
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