Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.


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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one
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Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
TURKISH PROVERB
No matter if you know a thousand things, still consult him who knows one.
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Better the man that conquer a thousand thousand men is the one who conquer one, himself.
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The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know.
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MIYAMOTO MUSASHI
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BERNARD MELTZER
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There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise...
IBN GABIROL
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The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
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a second-tier guy but one who knows things.
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Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
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A wise person is the one who knows what he knows and what he does not know.
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The only man who is a bigger fool than the one who knows it all is the one who will argue with him.
UNKNOWN
If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.
ZENRIN
If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.
ZENRIN
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Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man.
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Perfect wife is the one who knows that no man is perfect.
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BRENT MARTIN
If you don't get a lawyer who knows law then get the one who knows the Judge !.
BHALCHANDRA
A man who says that he knows everything, does not know how to be meek.
BRANDITTES CHUA
Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.
MARK TWAIN
No man knows less than the man who knows it all
SOURCE UNKNOWN
The man who has done his level best…is a success, even though the world write him down a failure.
B.C. FORBES
The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will
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There's one way to find out if a man is honest-ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook.
GROUCHO MARX
There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked.
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A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.
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NASTASSJA KINSKI
He who does not know one thing knows another
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It's not only who you know but who knows you.
BIANCA FRAZIER
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
SWEDISH PROVERB
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Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?
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Though you have thousand friends you are an orphan without a family.
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A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
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There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.
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The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
ELBERT HUBBARD
We're one and he knows what I'm going to ask of him and I know what to expect from him.
CATRINA LANGLEY
Even a poor man doesn't ask alms unless he sees you have the ability to give.
PIYUSH GOYAL
A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
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A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
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