Knows Quotes
7368 Knows quotes by 4206 unique authors
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Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty)…
— Virginia Woolf
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A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.
— John le Carre
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And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for…
— Herman Melville
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The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.
— Alfred the Great
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Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?
— Michael Moorcock
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One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality.
— Alfred Bester
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It's funny, but many people don't understand why I draw so many games nowadays. They think my style must have changed but this is not…
— Mikhail Tal
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This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.
— Jane Jacobs
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It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
— Diana Wynne Jones
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Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
— Cornelia Funke
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There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I still can’t believe [ Muhammad Ali ] knows my name. It astounds me he knows who I am. I first met Ali in 1976.…
— Mike Tyson
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The white man knows what a revolution is. He knows that the Black Revolution is worldwide in scope and in nature. The Black Revolution is…
— Malcolm X
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It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.
— Napoleon Hill
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God seems to throw Himself on the side of the man who knows exactly what he wants, if he is determined to get JUST THAT!
— Napoleon Hill
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An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the…
— Dale Carnegie
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A person who has a dream knows what he is willing to give up in order to go up.
— John C. Maxwell
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I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing…
— Meg Whitman
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TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.
— Candice Swanepoel
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
— Democritus
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God knows we have nothing of ourselves, therefore in the covenant of grace he requires no more than he gives, but gives what he requires,…
— Richard Sibbes
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Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very…
— E T A Hoffmann
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