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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
Knowledge
Edgar Degas

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Love
John Donne

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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Talent
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
Failure
George Eliot

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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
Genius
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
Sorrow
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
Virtue
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
Knowledge
Epictetus

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Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
Honesty
Henry Fielding

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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
Business
Malcolm S. Forbes

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I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
Possibilities
Henry Ford

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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Peace
Benjamin Franklin

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He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.
Physicians
Benjamin Franklin

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Vice knows that she is ugly, so she puts on her mask.
Vice
Benjamin Franklin

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
Time and Time Management
French Proverb

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We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
Secrets
Robert Frost

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He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
Wives
Thomas Fuller

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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
Facts
Jean Genet

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Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Love
Kahlil Gibran

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
Knowledge
Ellen Glasgow

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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Happiness
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
Language
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Wisdom
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
Doubt
George Herbert

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun