Quotes of: Know-thyself Keyword

To know that you do not know is the best. To think you know when you do not is a disease. Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.

Lao Tzu

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.

Bill Hicks

I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.

Ian Williams

You can't know what you don't know. You can't know about things you have yet to discover.

Jonathan Raymond

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

Omar N. Bradley

Not knowing should not be an excuse when the matter of knowing becomes a turning point in one's life

Life

Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. W...

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

There are many things I don’t know, but quite a few I do. I know you can’t be lost if you know where you are. I know that life is full of precious and fragile things, and not all of them are pretty. I know that the sun follows the moon and makes ...

Megan Hart

Chris Taylor: He killed him. I know that he killed him. I saw his eyes when he came back in. Rhah: How do you know the dinks didn't get him? You've got no proof, man. Chris Taylor: Proof's in the eyes, man. When you know, you know. You were there, Rh...

Platoon

A kid thinking about fairy tales and believing in fairy tales Acts like a sick god, but like a god. Because even though he affirms that what doesn’t exist exists, He knows things exist, that he exists, He knows existing exists and doesn’t explain...

Alberto Caeiro

I Don’t Know whether lust is a human coarseness or a human fineness: I don’t know why death holds a so sweet lure since it would take away my Body: I don’t know that I wouldn’t deny my Christ, if I had one, three times before a given cockcrow...

I, Mary MacLane: A diary of Human Days

Our destination isn't clear. All I know is that I want to get there together. The Unknown is scary. I'll always have some fear about what's going to happen next. The thing is, the unknown can also be exciting. Your life could change in an instant any...

Something Like Fate

Maybe you shake your head, but let me learn a lesson right now: plenty knowledge is in this world. Enough knowledge that you can pick and refuse. And if you want, you can refuse to know plenty things, don't care how true those things be. I know thing...

The Last Warner Woman

When I learn the meaning of a word, I know the word; but when I say to myself, 'I know the word,' there comes a reflection of the word back from the mirror of my mind, making a second impression, and after that I am at least not so likely to forget i...

George MacDonald

[first lines] [David is gazing admiringly at a pretty blonde girl] David: *Hi* [chuckles] David: I mean, Hi. Uh, look, you probably don't think I should be asking you this. I mean, not knowing you well and all? I mean, you know, I, I, I know you, 'ca...

Pleasantville

Uncle Charlie: You think you know something, don't you? You think you're the clever little girl who knows something. There's so much you don't know, so much. What do you know, really? You're just an ordinary little girl, living in an ordinary little ...

Shadow of a Doubt

Celine: You know, I've been wondering lately. Do you know anyone who's in a happy relationship? Jesse: Uh, yeah, sure. I know happy couples. But I think they lie to each other. Celine: Hmf. Yeah. People can lead their life as a lie. My grandmother, s...

Before Sunrise

Learn to paint a tiger and you only paint his skin; learn to know a human being and you only know his face.

Chinese

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

Dick Cavett

I know of my sex appeal. I know about sexuality, and I know how to use it - tastefully, of course.

Rachel Bilson

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.

Sun Tzu