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Knowing Quotes (page 660)

Voltaire quote: "What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide."That is because..."
What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide."That is because I know what life is," said Martin. Voltaire
Philip K. Dick quote: "Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or..."
Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Philip K. Dick
George Eliot quote: "Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any..."
Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. George Eliot
Peter De Vries quote: "Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from..."
Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection. Peter De Vries
If even a dog's tooth is truly worshipped it glows with light. The venerated object is endowed with power, that is the simple sense of the ontological proof. And if there is art enough a lie can enlighten us as well as the truth. What is the truth anyway, that truth? As we know ourselves we are fake objects, fakes, bundles of illusions. Can you determine exactly what you felt or thought or did? Iris Murdoch
Hermione, if Harry’s seen a Grim, that’s — that’s bad,” he said. “My — my uncle Bilius saw one and — and he died twenty-four hours later!” “Coincidence,” said Hermione airily, pouring herself some pumpkin juice. “You don’t know what you’re talking about!” said Ron, starting to get angry. “Grims scare the living daylights out of most wizards!” “There you are, then,” said Hermione in a superior tone. “They see the Grim and die of fright. The Grim’s not an omen, it’s the cause of death! And... J. K. Rowling
As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you. C. S. Lewis
Nobody chooses to evolve. It's like floods and avalanches and earthquakes. You never know what's happening until they hit, then it's too late. Haruki Murakami
Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose. Jodi Picoult
Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy and more than anything in the world you want to get off and the only reason in the world you don’t get off is it’s still fifty blocks from where you’re going? Well, I can get off right now if I want to, because even if I ride fifty more years and get off then, it’s the same place when I step down to it. Whenever I feel like it, I can get off. As soon as I’ve had enough, it’s my stop. I’ve... Marsha Norman
William Shakespeare quote: "We know what we are, but not what we may be."
We know what we are, but not what we may be. William Shakespeare
Emma Thompson quote: "I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay..."
I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie. Emma Thompson
...imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine. Hector Berlioz
But Ludmilla is always at least one step ahead of you. “I like to know that book exists that I will still be able to read…” she says, sure that existent objects, concrete albeit unknown, must correspond to the strength of her desire. How can you keep up with her, this woman who is always reading another book besides the one before her eyes, a book that does not yet exist, but which, since she wants it, cannot fail to exist? Italo Calvino
Woodrow Wilson quote: "How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs..."
How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping? Woodrow Wilson

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