Worth Knowing Quotes
72 Worth Knowing quotes by 53 unique authors
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
— H. L. Mencken
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Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect…
— Bertrand Russell
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Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware…
— Paul Ryan
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
— Oscar Wilde
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As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.
— Bill Watterson
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Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
— Jane Austen
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I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach…
— Neil Gaiman
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
— Oscar Wilde
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I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Dad," said Will, his voice very faint. "Are you a good person?" "To you and your mother, yes, I try. But no man's a hero…
— Ray Bradbury
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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live…
— Oscar Wilde
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Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.
— Kató Lomb
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Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts, Teach us something please, Whether we be old and bald, Or young with scabby knees, Our heads could do with…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Man was made to lead with his chin; he is worth knowing only with his guard down, his head up and his heart rampant on…
— Robert Farrar Capon
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That was when I found out that the best way in the world to make yourself feel better when you have hit bottom is to…
— Gene Wolfe
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No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls…
— Algernon Blackwood
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I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.
— Tori Amos
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We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.
— Jane Austen
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Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.
— Robin Hobb
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man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in…
— Sonya Hartnett
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You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am... Carry on.
— Charles M. Schulz
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Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.
— Confucius
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Dance with me,' Win said. 'I know I'm probably making a fool of myself. You're probably thinking, how many times do I have to reject…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.
— Karen Marie Moning
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