Knowing Something Quotes (page 3)

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• health
• mirror
• sick

Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves. Italo Svevo

• time
• father
• understanding

Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing. Mitch Albom

• thinking you
• mind
• thinking

You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind. Sue Monk Kidd

• god
• annoying
• thing

If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something. Terry Prachett

• wills
• will
• willing

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. Bill Nye

• experience
• may
• you me

We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be. Bram Stoker

• him
• personal
• death

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't. Neil Gaiman

• ignorance
• clever
• something

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant. Jane Austen

• dark
• age
• end

You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet. Kurt Vonnegut

• support
• work
• learning

In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the standards of evidence must be if we are really to know something is true, how many false starts and dead ends have plagued human thinking, how our biases can colour our interpretation of evidence, and how often belief systems widely held and supported by the political, religious and academic hierarchies turn out to be not just slightly in error, but grotesquely... Carl Sagan

• time
• week
• beautiful her

I like photographing women who appear to know something of life. I recently did a session with a great beauty, a movie star in in her thirties. I photographed her twice within three weeks and the second time I said: "You're much more beautiful today than you were three weeks ago." And she replied: "But I'm also three weeks older. Helmut Newton

• animal
• world
• sometimes

I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood. Barry Lopez

• appearance
• life
• may

Life itself, too, is forever turning an infinitely vacant, dispiriting blank side towards man on which nothing appears, any more than it does on a blank canvas. But no matter how vacant and vain, how dead life may appear to be, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth, who knows something, will not be put off so easily. Vincent Van Gogh

• wise
• thinking
• sometimes

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know something, but usually they are just messes. Anne Sexton

• nature
• forever
• manly

I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forever in the bosom of God. He is seen but for a moment wandering on the verge of two abysses, and then is lost. If man were wholly ignorant of himself he would have no poetry in him, for one cannot describe what one does not conceive. If he saw himself clearly, his imagination would remain idle and would have nothing to add to the picture. But the nature of man is sufficiently revealed for him to... Alexis de Tocqueville