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• I took his suggestion to heart and went from a "know-it-all" to a "learn-it-all."

  T. Harv Eker

  Heart, Secret, Suggestions

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• No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Inspirational, Graduation, Education

  1967 In Partisan Review, Summer issue.

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• Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all.

  Tom DeLay

  Knows

  "Found Object: DeLay on Hardball". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 05, 2006.

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• The gun-control crusade today is like the Prohibition crusade 100 years ago. It is a shared zealotry that binds the self-righteous know-it-alls in a warm fellowship of those who see themselves as fighting on the side of the angels against the forces of evil. It is a lofty role that they are not about to give up for anything so mundane as facts - or even the lives of other people.

  Thomas Sowell

  Giving Up, Angel, Fighting

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• The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.

  A. R. Rahman

  Music, Thinking, Done

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• Healing is too big a topic for any one person to know it all.

  Andrew Saul

  Healing, Topics, Bigs

  Andrew Saul, Ph.D. (2009). “Doctor Yourself: Natural Healing That Works: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Some tips for life: 1.Don't be afraid to follow your dreams, unless your dreams are stupid. 2.Be kind to people. 3.Don't get too excited when you read the Fountainhead 4.In times of recession, it is time for invention. 5.Things can kill you, so keep that in mind, you fearless know it alls.

  Eugene Mirman

  Dream, Stupid, People

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• Alas," said Aslan, shaking his head. "It will. Things always work according to their nature. She has won her heart's desire; she has unwearying strength and endless days like a goddess. But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Evil, Desire

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.98, Harper Collins

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• Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before - that we now have the option for all humanity to make it successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Blessed, Thinking, Technology

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• Young people think they know it all, but a lot of old salts around know they don't.

  Richard Jackson

  Thinking, People, Salt

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• The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.

  Carl Ally

  Creativity, Bad Ass, Ideas

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• No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Adventure, Cowboy, Play

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• 'Confusion is the last stop on the way to clarity,' he told me. 'The part of your mind that thinks it knows it all is butting up against a bigger idea. It's only a matter of time until the smaller thought gives way to the greater. Don't fight it. Just try to enjoy the ride.'

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Fighting, Thinking

  Alan H. Cohen (2011). “How Good Can It Get?: What I Learned from the Richest Man in the World”, p.19, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Father, Personal Opinions

  Attributed in Reader's Digest, Sept. 1937. The attribution to Twain is obviously spurious because Twain's father died when the future writer was eleven years old.

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• Donald Trump is a great listener, and he's a good challenger. He doesn't come across as a person who thinks he knows it all. In fact, he once told me he has had lot of things to learn.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You live with life's disappointments and learn from them. At seventy-eight, I know it all.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Disappointment, Eight, Seventies

  "Rodney Dangerfield: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• People love to help. I don't have to be insecure and know it all.

  Chip Wilson

  Insecure, People, Helping

  "Lululemon Founder Chip Wilson Shares The Best Advice He Ever Got" by Max Nisen, www.businessinsider.com. October 28, 2013.

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• I think it's very important to distinguish between objectivity - which tends to be open, flexible, skeptical of its own certainty and open to new information - and objectivism - which thinks, "No, we know it all, we've got it, so real thinking and learning can come to an end."

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Real, Thinking, Objectivity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am forced to the conclusion that modern medicine does not know it all.

  Jennifer Worth

  Medicine, Doe, Modern

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• One of the most anxiety-inducing side effects of the information era is the feeling that you have to know it all.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Anxiety, Feelings, Sides

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• I grew up Presbyterian. Presbyterians thought the Methodists were wrong. Catholics thought all Protestants were wrong. The Jews thought the Christians were wrong. So, what I'm financing is humility. I want people to realize that you shouldn't think you know it all.

  John Templeton

  Christian, Humility, Thinking

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• If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Talking, Two, People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.1071, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I don’t want to know anything, and I want to know it all

  David Levithan

  Want, Knows

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.16, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I know how I could beat myself: by not being disciplined, by slacking, by not dedicating myself to my craft, by not working hard, by not listening, by thinking I know it all - short like that.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Thinking, Listening, Slacking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Understand that you don't know it all. You don't know anything yet. What you've been taught is great, but always go with common sense. And don't marry your first love.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  First Love, Common Sense, Firsts

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 11, 2014.

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