“My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.”
Cecil Graham, Act II
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
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Oscar Wilde812
Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
“You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
Richard Feynman book The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
From Omni interview, "The Smartest Man in the World" (1979) p. 203
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (1999)
Marvin Minsky (1927–2016) American cognitive scientist
Mat Buckland, AI Techniques for Game Programming (2002), Cincinnati, OH: Premier Press, 36 ISBN 1-931841-08-X.
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Ataol Behramoğlu (1942) Turkish writer
"How Awful When Poetry Ages As It Is Read"
I've Learned Some Things (2008)
Context: I'd make me into a brand new sailor if I were God
Maybe there were new things over there
It comes from within me to write as though rabid, I'm hungry, do you understand
Let the doctors call it what they will
Who can know anything best of all
What does it mean to know anything best
Which religion doesn't grow old
“I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.”
Elvis Presley (1935–1977) American singer and actor
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
