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Knowing Quotes (page 467)

Henry David Thoreau quote: "We know but few man, a great many coats and breeches."
We know but few man, a great many coats and breeches. Henry David Thoreau
No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagantly toxic; capturing small insects and injecting them with enough poison to drop a horse would appear to be the most literal case of overkill. Still, it does mean that everyone gives them lots of space. Bill Bryson
You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached. Ayn Rand
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "sorrow makes us all children again-destroys all differences of..."
sorrow makes us all children again-destroys all differences of intellect. the wisest know nothing. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Neither can such a doctrine argue: it simply does not understand that other doctrines exist, can exist, it simply does not know how to imagine an opinion contrary to its own Friedrich Nietzsche
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Forgive him- he knows not what he does."
Forgive him- he knows not what he does. Kurt Vonnegut
Life is a veil, its paths are dark and rough. Only because we do not know enough. When Science has discovered something more. We shall be happier than we were before. Hilaire Belloc
Shel Silverstein quote: "Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been."
Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been. Shel Silverstein
...the sea offers the only broad horizon, and the immense he saw now gave him a peculiar, an indescribable thrill. He felt suddenly elated. Though he did not know it, it was the first time that he had experienced, quite undeluted with foreign emotions, the sense of beauty. W. Somerset Maugham
I was at once content and stimulated with what I saw: I liked what I had seen, and wished to see more. Yet, for a long time, I treated you distantly, and sought your company rarely. I was an intellectual epicure, and wished to prolong the gratification of making this novel and piquant acquaintance: besides, I was for a while troubled with a haunting fear that if I handled the flower freely its bloom would fade-the sweet charm of freshness would leave it. I did not then know that it was no... Charlotte Bronte
Lewis Carroll quote: "I do,” Alice hastily replied; “at least—at least I mean what I..."
I do,” Alice hastily replied; “at least—at least I mean what I say—that’s the same thing, you know. Lewis Carroll
I watched her departure, as one watches a sunset. She went like a radiance through the dark wood, which was henceforth bright to me, from simply knowing that such a creature was in it. George MacDonald
There was little comfort, this voice inside him said, in discovering a mystery at the wellspring of his life so banal his unremarkable mind could readily fathom it. Better, perhaps, to die in doubt, knowing there was some revelation still unfound, than to pursue and possess such a wretched certainty. Clive Barker
I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune. William S. Burroughs
Fannie Flagg quote: "You know, a heart can be broken, but it still keeps a-beating..."
You know, a heart can be broken, but it still keeps a-beating just the same. Fannie Flagg

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