Wise men are wise but not prudent, in that they know nothing of what is for their own advantage, but know surpassing things, marvellous things, difficult things, and divine things.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

kaungkuy n old variety of white-grained paddy rice.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In the autumn of 1843, Adolph went to Dr. Duncan in Edinburgh, that he might perfect his knowledge of English, where he remained six months, and then went to Berlin, and studied at the Gymnasium from 1844 to 1848, acquiring a thorough knowledge not only of German literature, but also of German philosophy.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

they know nothing of true existence.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

423-449 he said, “For certain, my wife will know nothing of this stolen embrace; or, if she should chance to know, is her scolding, is it, I say , of such great consequence?”
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Such families know nothing of political events, although they are discussed at table; for changes in the Government take place at such a distance from them that they are spoken of as one speaks of a historical event, such as the death of Louis XVI or the landing of Napoleon.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

" When a young naturalist commences the study of a group of organisms quite unknown to him he is at first much perplexed in determining what differences to consider as specific and what as varietal; for he knows nothing of the amount and kind of variation to which the group is subject; and this shows, at least, how very generally there is some variation.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Ah, how I envy those savages, those children of nature, who know nothing of civilisation!’
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"I know nothing of the kind.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

I was a foolish, uneducated man, that knew nothing of the wants of the men I spoke for, EDGAR.
— from Plays : First Series by John Galsworthy

Other schools of modern and American origin might make a feature of public examinations, with questions by bearded professors from boys' colleges; but the establishment of Madame Moreau knew nothing of such innovations.
— from Anne: A Novel by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Because, you know, no one may leave before the evening of the second day of the holiday."
— from Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch. Two Stories of Jewish Life by Ulrich Frank

I then asked him where he had left the other flyers; he told me he knew nothing of them since he came past the forges in his return; for there he met them going to Lasmeel.—"Why that," says I, "must be a great way on this side the governor's."
— from The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, Complete (Volumes 1 and 2) by Robert Paltock

He knows not only the effect upon those who love him, but the effect upon himself.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews by Robert Green Ingersoll

He knew nought of the vagrant’s past, his reason might admit that in a position of life so at variance with the gifts natural and acquired of the singular basketmaker, there was something mysterious and suspicious.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

His monopoly of her happened to be one merely because she, at that time, knew no other man of his sort, and would not go out with any other kind of man.
— from Athalie by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

He knows nothing of the past.
— from Daireen. Complete by Frank Frankfort Moore

To a man who had hitherto known no other emotion, outside a very ordinary type of home affection, than friendship for another man; whose life, with the exception of one brief period of glamorous hero-worship, had been devoted to duty in its sternest, most virile form, this mental pre-occupation over two women, both comparative strangers, was at first a matter for self-mockery.
— from Rose of the World by Egerton Castle

Sinton found a kinetic nucleus or blepharoplast in the organism, and therefore placed it in the genus Prowazekia .
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald