Knows Whether Quotes
37 quotes by 29 authors
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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
— Jean Anouilh
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I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I…
— Lucille Clifton
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Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?
— Horace
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But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.
— Alan Bean
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To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does…
— Socrates
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Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.
— Geoffrey Fisher
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Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to be manipulated by…
— Thomas A. Edison
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me? When I play with my…
— Michel de Montaigne
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For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one…
— Socrates
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A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of…
— Joseph Addison
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History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
— Christian Lous Lange
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Two people see each across a room or their skin brushes. Their souls recognize the person as their own. It doesn't need time to figure…
— J. Lynn
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Remember, too, every day, and whenever you can, repeat to yourself, Lord, have mercy on all who appear before Thee today. For every hour and…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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There is only one time that is important-Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.…
— Wayne Dyer
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No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they…
— Plato
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I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one,…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
— Jimmy Breslin
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One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
— Karel Capek
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In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.
— Bruce Nauman
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No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain…
— Michel de Montaigne
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