Worth Knowing Quotes

72 quotes by 54 authors

Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only… — Alexander Pope
If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well. — Alexander Smith
Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is… — Kenneth Grahame
I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now remains to comfort… — John Selden
Anyone who doesn't belive in Faeries, isn't worth knowing. — Tori Amos
It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man… — H. L. Mencken
When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth… — Gerda Lerner
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes… — Henri Poincare
One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing — H. L. Mencken
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living — Henri Poincare
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. — Alan Perlis
I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go. — Elif Safak
I think that people who can't believe in faeries aren't worth knowing. I just think that alternate realities make you a good writer. If your… — Tori Amos
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own. — Margaret Fuller
The secret of Masonry, like the secret of life, can be known only by those who seek it, serve it, live it. It cannot be… — William Howard Taft
Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught. — Oscar Wilde
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association… — H. L. Mencken
In our hearts those of us who know anything worth knowing know that in March a new year begins, and if we plan any new… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If… — Robertson Davies

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