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  • I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks. My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

    -James Agate
      Journal entry, 9  Jun. Collected in Ego 6 (1944).

  • Il n'existe que trois e"  tres respectables: le pre"  tre, le guerrier, le poe'  te. Savoir, tuer et cre  er. There are only three respectable beings: priest, warrior, poet. To know, to kill and to create.

    - Charles Baudelaire
      Mon coeur mis a'   nu, pt.22.

  • He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Psalms 46:9^10.

  • When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; Until Iwent intothesanctuaryof God; thenunderstood I their end.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Psalms 73:16^17.

  • As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Psalms103:15^16.

  •   Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew 7:20.

  • It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know; and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

    - (Arthur) Joyce Lunel Cary
      Art and Reality, introduction.

  • Aprendamos a ignorar, pensamiento, pues hallamos que cuanto an‹  ado al discurso, tanto le usurpo a los an‹  os. Thought, let's learn not to know, since so plainly it appears that whatever we add to our minds we take away from our years.

    - SorJuana Ine  s de la Cruz
      A Sor Juana  Anthology,'Acusa la hidropes | a de mucha ciencia' (translated as'She Condemns the Bloatedness of Much Learning',1985).

  • You mentioned yournameasif Ishould recogniseit, but I assure you that, beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a Freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

    - SirArthur Conan Doyle
      The Return of Sherlock Holmes,'The Norwood Builder'.

  • And what you do not know is the only thing you know And what you own is what you do not own And where you are is where you are not.

    -T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
      Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.3.

  • Ich kann nur berichten, was ich weiÞ. I can only report on what I know.

    - Max Rudolph Frisch
      Homo Faber, pt.1.

  • Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.

    -Thomas Fuller
      The Holy and Profane State, bk.2, ch.4,'Of  Travelling'.

  • Ich kenne mich auch nicht und Gott soll michauch davor behuten. I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

    -JohannWolfgang von Goethe
      Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe,10  Apr.

  • In your heart, you know I'm right.

    - Barry M(orris) Goldwater
      Presidential campaign slogan.

  • The clever men at Oxford Know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much As intelligent MrToad.

    - Kenneth Grahame
      The Wind in the Willows, ch.10.

  • If you don't know where you are, you're nowhere.

    - Gilbert M Grosvenor
    On the NGS's establishment of a $20-million foundation to fight ignorance of geography. Quoted in the Washington Post,14  Jan 1988.

  • I saw that lack of love contaminates, You know I know you know I know you know.

    -Thom(sonWilliam) Gunn
      'Carnal Knowledge'.

  • Whether Iwas inmy bodyoroutof my bodyas Iwroteit I know not.God knows.

    - George Frideric Handel
    Of the'Hallelujah Chorus' in his Messiah. Quoted in Romain Rolland Essays on Music (1948).

  • We can scarcely hate any one that we know.

    -William Hazlitt
      Table Talk, vol.2,'On Criticism'.

  • Ich kenn es wohl, dein Missgeschick: Verfehltes Leben, verfehlte Liebe! I know it well, your mishap: A missed life, a missed love!

    - Heinrich Heine
    ^4  Neue Gedichte, Unterwelt, pt.5.

  •    The great thing isto last and get your workdone, and see and hear and understand and write when there is something that you know and not before and not too damn much after.

    - Ernest Millar Hemingway
      Death in the Afternoon, ch.16.

  • Hay hombres que de su ciencia tienen la cabeza llena; hay sabios de todas menas, mas digo, sin ser muy ducho: es mejor que aprender mucho el aprender cosas buenas. There are some men who have their heads full up with the things they know. Wise men come in all sizes, but I don't need so much sense to say

    -Jose Herna n dez

  • Science has 'explained'nothing: the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

    - Aldous Leonard Huxley
      Views of Holland.

  • Anti-classic art, if it may even be called an art, is merely theart oftheidle.It isthe doctrine ofthosewho desireto produce without working, to know without learning.

    -Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
      Quoted in Henri Delaborde Ingres, sa vie, ses travaux, sa doctrine (1870).

  • As I know more of mankind I expect less ofthem, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.

    - Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
      Remark, Sep. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

  •    Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

    - Erica ne  e Mann Jong
      How To SaveYour Own Life.

  • Sapere aude, havethe couragetoknow: that isthemotto of enlightenment.

    - Immanuel Kant
      His reply to a newspaper's challenge to define enlightenment. Quoted in The Economist,16 Mar1996.

  • 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

    -John Keats
      Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'Ode on a Grecian Urn', stanza 5.

  • You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way.

    -John F(itzgerald) Kennedy
    Comment on methods of assassination. Quoted in Peter Collier and David Horowitz The Kennedys (1984).

  • Winds of the World, give answer! Theyare whimpering to and fro And what should they know of England who only England know? The poor little street-bred people that vapour and fume and brag.

    - (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
      'The English Flag'.

  • She had reached an age where she thought she could not stand to knowany more†she pushed any discovery aside with embarassment.

    - Alice ne  e Laidlaw Munro
      Lives of Girls and Women,'Royal Beatings'.

  • How did they know?

    - Dorothy ne  e Rothschild Parker
      Attributed response on hearing of the death of President Calvin Coolidge.

  • Half of them don't know what's going to happen tomorrow and the other half don't know they don't know.

    -Jane Bryant Quinn
      Of stock market players. On CNN TV, 4 Apr.

  • The leader must know, must know that he knows and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those about him that he knows.

    - Clarence Beldan Randall
      Making Good in Management.

  • We don't know where that money came from and we don't know who had it and we don't know where it went.

    - Ronald Wilson Reagan
      Of the Iran^Contra funding. In the NewYorkTimes,17 Mar.

  • In a civil war, a general must knowand I'm afraid it's a thing rather of instinct than of practicehe must know exactly when to move over to the other side.

    - Henry Reed
      Not a DrumWas Heard:TheWar Memoirs of General Gland, unpublished radio play.

  • There is only one constant preoccupation: I have throughout been anxious to discover how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.

    - Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
      My Philosophical Development, ch.1.

  •    The people know what the land knows.

    - Carl Sandburg
      The People,Yes.

  • If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

    - Peter Sellers
    Attributed.

  • The very power of science to hold knowledge as collective knowledge is founded upon a degree and a quality of trust which are arguably unparalleled elsewhere in our culture† Scientists know so much about the natural world by knowing so much about whom they can trust.

    - Steven Shapin
      A Social History ofTruth.

  •    Loving in truth, and vain in verse my love to show, That she (dear she) mighttake some pleasure of my pain, Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know; Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain.

    - Nevil originally Nevil Shute Norway Shute
    Astrophel and Stella, sonnet1.

  • Summum Mentis bonum est Dei cognitio, et summa Mentis virtus Deum cognoscere. The greatest good of the mind is the knowledge of God, and the greatest virtue of the mind is to know God.

    - Baruch also known as Benedict de Spinoza Spinoza
      Ethics, bk.4, prop.28.

  • You know more than you think you do.

    - Dr Benjamin McLane Spock
      The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, opening words.

  • I pulled to the side of the street and got out my book of road maps.But to find where you are going, you must know where you are, and I didn't.

    -John Ernest Steinbeck
      TravelsWith Charley In Search of America.

  • It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.

    - Horace, 4th Earl of Orford Walpole
      Of the Orient. Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 27 Mar. In The Correspondence of HoraceWalpole (Yale edition,1937^8).

  • When will the world know that peace and propagation are the two most delightful things in it?

    - Horace, 4th Earl of Orford Walpole
      Letter to Sir Horace Mann,7 Jul. In The Correspondence of HoraceWalpole (Yale edition,1937^8).

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