497 quotes found
“It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.”
“Painting is easy when you don't know how but very difficult when you do.”
“To measure up to all that is demanded of him a man must overestimate his capacities.”
“Today if you are not confused you are not thinking clearly.”
“I have always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should have been more specific.”
“In baseball you don't know nothing.”
“I know it was wonderful but I don't know how I did it.”
“Unprovided with original learning unformed in the habits of thinking unskilled in the arts of composition I resolved to write a book.”
“When Columbus started out he didn't know where he was going when he got there he didn't know where he was and when he got back he didn't know where he had been.”
“It is a sign of strength not of weakness to admit that you don't know all the answers.”
“Whatever people in general do not understand they are always prepared to dislike the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.”
“One learns by doing the thing for though you think you know it you have no certainty until you try.”
“Nothing in this world can one imagine beforehand not the least thing. Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.”
“Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.”
“I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know.”
“Where ignorance is bliss Tis folly to be wise.”
“The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”
