“Razo knew he was best at nothing, except maybe cramming two cherries into a single nostril.”
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“He declared that he knew nothing, except the fact of his ignorance.”
Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Socrates, 16.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers
“Because maybe, the best of times were yet to come. You never knew.”
Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride
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“Ηe knew nothing except just the fact of his ignorance.”
Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher
Alternate translation: I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
II.32. Original Greek: εἰδέναι μὲν μηδὲν πλὴν αὐτὸ τοῦτο [εἰδέναι].
Diogenes Laertius
“Between our two lives
there is also the life of
the cherry blossom.”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
“He that knew all that ever Learning writ,
Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.”
Aphra Behn (1640–1689) British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer
The Emperor of the Moon, Act III, sc. iii.
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
On Woody Allen, in an interview with Roger Ebert in Esquire magazine (7 March 1972) http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19720307/PEOPLE/41116001