Knowing Something Quotes

30 quotes by 29 authors

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias
I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the… — George Orwell
The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to himself. Perhaps you are chasing rainbows. You're after the… — Carlos Castaneda
You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't… — Boris Vallejo
How do we know imagination isn't just a different way of knowing something? A message from outside. — Stephanie S. Tolan
One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear Superior, and will… — Benjamin Hoff
What use is it that knowledge mounts? It's knowing something good that counts. — Friedrich von Logau
But you can't stop knowing something, can you? — Ellen Ullman
Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. — Walker Evans
Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows… — Nathan Myhrvold
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. — Richard P. Feynman
I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all. — Vladimir Nabokov
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it. — Samuel Johnson
Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false… — Neil Postman
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… — Barry Lopez
There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn. — Alison Croggon
A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog,… — Wislawa Szymborska
Why did dogs make one want to cry? There was something so quiet and hopeless about their sympathy. Jasper, knowing something was wrong, as dogs… — Daphne du Maurier
If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical… — Aberjhani

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