"Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better."
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"It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others."
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"I do trust women. I have a lot of women in my life. I have a mother. I have a woman. There's a lot of women around me. And I do trust them. And they trust me, as far as I know."
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"It is the anonymous "they," the enigmatic "they" who are in charge. Who is "they"? I don't know. Nobody knows. Not even "they" themselves."
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"Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did."
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"None of you will ever know what I am thinking."
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"I've come too far, and I don't know how to get back."
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"To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom."
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"I don't believe there is a God. I know there is a God."
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"In each of us there is another whom we do not know."
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"Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down"."
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"It's not a competency if you don't know the edge of it."
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"Knowing what you don't know is more useful than being brilliant."
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"True wisdom is knowing what you don't know"
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"What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom."
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"Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from."
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"I put one on the turntable and when the needle dropped, I was stunned - didn't know whether I was stoned or straight."
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"I know simply that the sky will last longer than I."
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"It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it."
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"To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it."
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