Molloy (1951)
“Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.”
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 97
“There was no way of knowing anything, he knew, not even that there was no way of knowing anything.”
Joseph Heller book Catch-22
Source: Catch-22 (1961), pp. 266
“You don’t know anything, but I know even less.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
“Face to Face,” p. 116
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Hopelessness”
“I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.”
Lord Goring, Act I
An Ideal Husband (1895)
“I now know that anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned.”
Sandra Bullock (1964) American actress and producer
On her three step-children with husband Jesse G. James
Parade interview (2009)
Context: I now know that anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned. If you don't have kids and animals, you don't truly know what real life is about.
Variant: Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree.
Source: Timeline
