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  • 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.

  • 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.

    Life   Girl   Inspiration  
    Tom Perrotta (2007). “Little Children: A Novel”, p.10, Macmillan
  • I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.

    "Don't Cry for Me Fidel Castro". Interview with Charles Laurence, www.cubanet.org. May 15, 2000.
  • 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.

    Interview with Brian Hughes Kasoro, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2011.
  • 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.

  • I know one thing, that I know nothing.

  • False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

    Truth   Attitude   Lying  
    Plato (2011). “The Final Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.136, Cosimo, Inc.
  • I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe.

    "Artists on Art, from the 14th - 20th centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, p. 442, 1972.
  • The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

  • 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 Answers Your Questions About Everything but His Books". Answers to A.V. Club readers' questions, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2007.
  • There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

    "The Truth in Words". Book by Neal Zero, 2005.
  • 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 (1985). “Danse Macabre”, Berkley
  • 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.

  • The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after.

    "The Doctrine of Fascism". Book by Benito Mussolini, 1932.
  • The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling.

    Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.201, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    "A conversation with PGA golfer Stewart Cink". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. January, 2012.
  • The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

    Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1488, Delphi Classics
  • Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

  • I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • 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, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.352
  • True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

    Family   Wisdom   Witty  
  • 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 (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage
  • 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 (2014). “The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers”, p.9, Harper Collins
  • Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

    Art   Knowing   Ballet  
  • 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 (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.171, Open Road Media
  • One so small Who knowing nothing knows but to obey.

    Alfred Lord Tennyson (2013). “Idylls of the King”, p.230, Simon and Schuster
  • 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 (2012). “West with the Night”, p.19, Open Road Media
  • 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.

  • The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

  • You know nothing, Jon Snow

    George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1758, Bantam
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