Knowing Nothing Quotes

• To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

  Confucius

  Wisdom, True Friend, Knowledge

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

  Socrates

  Family, Wisdom, Witty

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• I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

  Plato

  Im Sorry, Apology, Men

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, Xist Publishing

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• There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

  Maya Angelou

  Life Lesson, Believe, Cynical

  "The Truth in Words". Book by Neal Zero, 2005.

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• The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

  Socrates

  Wise, Wisdom, Philosophy

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• True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Philosophy

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  The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Inspiring, Education, Wisdom

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.

  Socrates

  Men, World, Nobody Knows

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• The only thing I know is that I know nothing

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Learning

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• To know, is to know that you know nothing.

  Socrates

  True Knowledge, Knows

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.

  Wendy Mass

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

  "The Candymakers (The Candymakers, Book 1)". Book by Wendy Mass, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2010.

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• 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

  Graduation, Education, Time

  Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Sebastian Melmoth

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

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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

  Men, Fancy, Trifling

  "Apology Of Socrates And Crito". Book by Plato, Read Books Ltd, 2016.

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• 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

  Taken, Order, Trying

  Interview with Mike Powell, pitchfork.com. October 10, 2011.

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• 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

  Knowledge, Acceptance, Science

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• 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

  Faith, Fall, Littles

  Stephen King (1985). “Danse Macabre”, Berkley

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• 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

  Wind, Mind, Dying

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• A man who says “I have learned enough and will learn no further” should be considered as knowing nothing at all.

  Haile Selassie

  Men, Enough, Should

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• I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

  Socrates

  Motivational, Ignorance, Thinking

  Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers See Milton 45

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• Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Anger, Helping Others

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

  Plato

  Truth, Attitude, Lying

  Plato (2011). “The Final Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.136, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To find yourself, think for yourself.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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