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“Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance”
Will Durant
“I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.”
Lewis Carroll
“Ever after that I knew what I was for him; and what I might be for the rest of the world, I ceased painfully to care.”
Charlotte Bronte
“I always knew I shouldn't have said that.”
Jon Stewart
“I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.”
Dick Gregory
“The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.”
William Orville Douglas
“She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.”
Anthony Trollope
“I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.”
Warren Buffett
“I shall go the way of the open sea, To the lands I knew before you came, And the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me, The memory of your name”
Laurence Hope
“If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident”
Charles de Montesquieu