If you are not a fish, how can you know if the fish are happy?
The back dies for the shoulder and the shoulder knows nothing about it.
He who doesn't know the church worships the stove.
An ennobled peasant does not know his own father.
You never know how a cow catches a rabbit.
To one who knows no better, a small garden is a forest.
What little Hans didn't learn, big Hans doesn't know.
You know who the good seamen are when the storm comes.
He is rich who knows when he has enough.
He who knows not when he has enough, is poor.
The deep sea can be fathomed, but who knows the hearts of men?
Only the soil knows when a young mouse is ill.
You know a bird from the way he flies.
Better to be a cuckold and not know it than to not be one and everybody say so.
They know not their own defects who search for the defects of others.
A fool who knows Latin is never a real fool.
Even the devil knows what is right, but he will not do it.
The bear knows seven songs and they are all about honey.
Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They k...
Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it’s a negative importance, it’s the importance of a blank sheet of paper. I can know because I don’t count. I feel singled out, but also bereft.
Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?
