“You have to know you don’t know before you can know.”— Clifford Cohen Related Quotes “He is not, he hopes, a sentimentalist. He tries not to sentimentalize the animals he kills, or to sentimentalize Bev Shaw. He avoids saying to her ‘I don’t know how you do it,’ in order not to have to hear her say in return, ‘Someone has to do it.”— J.M. Coetzee “Humility is the freedom to stop trying to be what we’re not, or pretending to be what we’re not, and accepting our ‘appropriate smallness.”— John Ortberg “Plimpton was a presence. He looked for ways in which he could make himself ridiculous. That made him a great storyteller.”— Stefan Fatsis