Know Enough Quotes
119 quotes by 104 authors
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I’m staring into chocolate eyes. although my brain is clouded and I’m dizzy, I know enough to register that chocolate is the opposite of blue.…
— Simone Elkeles
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Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like too many things,…
— Nick Hornby
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The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely, or anyway that part of the world he or she has…
— Mary Oliver
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The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy place; there is…
— E F Schumacher
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We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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His safety was more important than anything to me. Even if he would never know enough to understand that.
— Rachel Vincent
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The sky is purple, the flare of a match behind a cupped hand is gold; the liquor is green, bright green, made from a thousand…
— Poppy Z. Brite
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I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything
— Charles Dickens
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Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not…
— Christopher Hitchens
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If you think anyone is sane you just don’t know enough about them. The key — and this is very relevant in our case —…
— Christopher Moore
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I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough.
— Harold Bloom
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we all begin the process before we are ready, before we are strong enough, before we know enough; we begin a dialogue with thoughts and…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I…
— Sherwood Anderson
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A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.
— David Foster Wallace
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Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry to lay down…
— Peter Watts
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We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but…
— Wendell Berry
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The best thing about being 55 is that I know enough now to know what I want and what I don't want-and what I want…
— Bobbi Brown
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When I lose my marbles which is never, when I lose my energy, I travel the world today for Viacom, China, Turkey, Dubai, Kuwait. When…
— Sumner Redstone
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We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better;…
— Harold Bloom
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