Adamov Arthur 1908-1970

The only thing to know is how to use your neuroses.

Adams Henry Brooks 1838-1918

The Education of Henry Adams

They know enough who know how to learn.

Anonymous

(inscription at Delphi)

Know thyself.

Anouilh Jean 1910-1987

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.

Armstrong Louis 1901-1971

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell ‘em.

Auden W.H. 1907-1973

‘September 1, 1939'

I, and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.

Augustine St. 354-430

Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

Bacon Francis 1561-1626

The Advancement of Learning

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Bacon Francis 1561-1626

Essays ‘Of Suspicion'

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

The Bible

New Testament: I Corinthians ch.13 v.1

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For now we see though a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

The Bible

New Testament: St Luke ch.23 v.34

Father, forgive them: for they know not what they do.

Billings Josh 1818-1885

The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so.

Browning Robert 1812-1889

‘By the Fireside'

How well I know what I mean to do
When the long dark autumn-evenings come.

Camus Albert 1913-1960

I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.

Camus Albert 1913-1960

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Cheknov Anton 1860-1904

A man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves.

Colton Charles Caleb c.1780-1832

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

Connolly Cyril 1903-1974

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

Cummings E. E. 1894-1962

all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

Forster E.M. 1879-1970

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Galbraith J.K. 1908-

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Gay John 1685-1732

‘My Own Epitaph'

Life is a jest; and all things show it.
I thought so once; but now I know it.

Godley A.D. 1856-1925

‘The Megalopsychiad'

Great and good is the typical Don, and of evil and wrong the foe,
Good, and great, I'm a Don myself, and therefore I ought to know.

Goethe Johann von 1749-1832

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Goethe Johann von 1749-1832

Who does not know another language, does not know his won.

Grahame Kenneth 1859-1932

The clever men at Oxford

Know all there is to be knowed -
But they none of them know as half as much
As intelligent Mr. Toad.

Grotius Hugo 1583-1645

Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom.

Guitry Sacha 1885-1957

The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.

Gunn Thom

Carnal Knowledge

You know I know you know I know you know.

Gunther John 1901-1970

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know; the second, is to find out who will tell you.

Hammerstein II Oscar 1895-1960

Showboat

Ol' man river, dat ol' man river,
He msut know sumpin', but don't say nothin',
He jus' keeps rollin'.
He jus' keeps rollin' along.

Hart Josephine

Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.

Hazlitt William 1778-1830

All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know; and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture.

Johnson Lyndon B. 1908-1973

I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson Samuel 1709-1784

Knowledge is of two kinds; we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Keats John 1795-1821

‘Ode on a Grecian Urn'

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

Kempis Thomas à 1379-1471

De Imitatione Christi

Seek not to know who said or that, but take note of what has been said.

Martinez Jacinto Benaventey

When one admires n artist it is important not to know him personally.

Mencken H.L. 1880-1956

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Milton John 1608-1674

Areopagitica

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

Milton John 1608-1674

Paradise Lost

Sleep on

Blest pair; and O yet happiest if ye seek
No happier state, and know to know no more.

Mistinguett 1874-1956

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

Moliére 1622-1673

The Would-be Gentleman

Ah, it's a lovely thing, to know a thing or two.

Montaigne Michel de 1533-1592

Essays

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be oneself.

Nash Ogden 1902-1971

Ask Daddy, He Won't Know.

Newlove John

If you know nothing, be pleased to know nothing.

Nixon Richard 1913-1994

You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It is just as simple as that.

Onassis Aristotle 1906-1975

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Oxenstierna Count 1583-1654

Letter to his son

Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?

Pope Alexander 1688-1744

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan:
The proper study of mankind is man.

Proverbs and Sayings

Arab

It is a good thing to speak the truth: but it is a better thing to know the truth and to talk about date stones.

Proverbs and Sayings

Chinese

Yf you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.

Proverbs and Sayings

Greek

Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.

Proverbs and Sayings

Medieval

All men naturally desire to know.

Rogers Samuel 1763-1855

Jacqueline

To know her was to love her.

Rogers Will 1879-1935

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

Rogers Will 1879-1935

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

Roux Joseph

Science is for those who learn; poetry for those who know.

Saki (Hector Hugh Monro) 1870-1916

Toys of Peace and Other Papers

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Saward William 1801-1872

I know, and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backward.

Shaw Henry Wheeler (Josh Billings)

Proverb

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Smith Sydney 1771-1845

What you don't know would make a great book.

Sterne Laurence 1713-1768

Tristram Shandy

A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.

Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892

Idylls of the King ‘Lancelot and Elaine'

I know not if I know what true love is,
But if I know, then, if I love not him,
I know there is none other I can love.

Thoreau Henry David 1817-1862

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Tynan Kenneth 1927-1980

A neurosis is a secret you don't know you're keeping.

Virgil 70-19 BC

Eclogues no.8

Now I know what Love is.

Wilde Oscar 1854-1900

Only the shallow know themselves.

Wunderlich Paul

I refuse to explain everything, because if you know too much about yourself, you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick.

 

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