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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

George Bernard Shaw

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

George Bernard Shaw

'Do you know what a pessimist is?' 'A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.'

George Bernard Shaw

Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Aristotle

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

Aristotle

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Aristotle

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.

Nikki Giovanni

I do not know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.

Oprah Winfrey

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

Carl Jung

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Horace Mann

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Socrates

And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.

Socrates

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

Socrates

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Socrates

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Seneca

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One should never know too precisely whom one has married.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Brothers? Oh, I hate brothers. My older brother just doesn't know when to die, and my younger brothers seem to do nothing but.

Oscar Wilde

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Oscar Wilde

Only the shallow know themselves.

Oscar Wilde

Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Oscar Wilde

I am not young enough to know everything.

Oscar Wilde

When I was young, I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now, when I'm old, I know it is.

Oscar Wilde

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Oscar Wilde

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Michel de Montaigne

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Oscar Wilde

The way to know life is to love many things.

Vincent van Gogh

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Richard M. Nixon

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

Benjamin Franklin

When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Warren Buffett

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Benjamin Disraeli

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Aeschylus

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Benjamin Disraeli

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

Henry Ford

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

Ausonius

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson

I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know.

Thomas Jefferson

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Soren Kierkegaard

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first; rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

John Lennon

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

John Lennon

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Lao tzu

But I know somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

Martin Luther King Jr.

You never know what you can do till you try.

William Cobbett

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Oprah Winfrey

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

Oprah Winfrey

What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.

Oprah Winfrey

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Oprah Winfrey

But as you know, the most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between.

Norton Juster

...You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Bob Dylan

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.

Lewis Carroll

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Sophocles

Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.

Rita Mae Brown

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it.

David Starr Jordan

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Erica Jong

There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

Lao tzu

He who knows others is wise;He who know himself is enlightened.

Lao tzu

To know that you do not know is the best.To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

Lao tzu

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,There arises the recognition of ugliness.When they all know the good as good,There arises the recognition of evil.

Lao tzu

He who knows does not speak.He who speaks does not know.

Lao tzu

I know not if I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or if I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

Rene Descartes

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

T.s. Eliot

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

William Shakespeare

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

William Shakespeare

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am no beast.

William Shakespeare

And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.

William Shakespeare

O that a man might know the end of this day's business ere it come!

William Shakespeare

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen,Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all.

William Shakespeare

Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

William Shakespeare

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Aldous Huxley

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

Horace Mann

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.

Wilbur Wright

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

Maurice Maeterlinck

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

Ernest Hemingway

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.

Patrick Henry

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot

We shall not cease from our exploration, and at the end of all our exploring, we shall arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.

Tennessee Williams

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Tennessee Williams

I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

Vincent van Gogh

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Seneca

There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.

Seneca

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him.

Seneca

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

Seneca

I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words together.

Charles Dickens

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Seneca

You know, the courts may not be working any more, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done.

Matt Groening

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again.

Matt Groening

Aren't we forgeting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.

Matt Groening

There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

Fred Hoyle

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

Herodotus

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.

Herodotus

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

Michael Jordan

Do you know who you are?

Fydor Dostoevsky

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Michel de Montaigne

When you become senile, you won't know it.

Bill Cosby

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Bill Cosby

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

Benjamin Franklin

If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Edmund Burke

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Les Brown

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Will Durant

If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.

Warren Buffett

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.

Douglas Adams

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.

Woodrow Wilson

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Wayne Dyer

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

Sri Chinmoy

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Leonardo da Vinci

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?

Confucius

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Confucius

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?

Confucius

In his errors a man is true to type. Observe the errors and you will know the man.

Confucius

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building.

Steve Jobs

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is.

Lyndon B. Johnson

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

Kin Hubbard

You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks.

Eskimo Proverb

There may be another coup, but I don't know what we can do.

Lyndon B. Johnson

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

John Ruskin

If you don't shoot, then you don't score, I know that for sure.

The Hours

I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

Ronald Reagan

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler

"...I know it's hard when you're up to your armpits in alligators to remember you came here to drain the swamp. (February 10, 1982).

Ronald Reagan

Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Matthew Arnold

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

G. K. Chesterton

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butler

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

Madonna

If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it.

Chinese Proverb

We only know of one duty, and that is to love.

Albert Camus

The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.

Randy K. Milholland

In the end, you'll know which people really love you. They're the ones who see you for who you are and, no matter what, always find a way to be at your side.

Randy K. Milholland

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

Matthew Arnold

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

Madonna

[Common sense] is the best sense I know of.

Lord Chesterfield

Discretion is knowing how to hide that which we cannot remedy.

Spanish Proverb

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

George F. Burns

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers, you know.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.

Jean Anouilh

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

Albert Camus

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

George F. Burns

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

H. Norman Schwarzkopf

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

Thomas A. Edison

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

William Faulkner

There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses.

Randy K. Milholland

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

David Starr Jordan

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Thomas A. Edison

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

William Faulkner

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.

Gore Vidal

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Ayn Rand

I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, theres a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.

Tupac Shakur

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Elvis Presley

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

George W. Bush

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

Salvador Dali

No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.

George W. Bush

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Henry Rollins

No-one knows what the soul is.. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion.

Meister Eckhart

You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.

Frederick Warren

In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the other person completely. In heterosexual sex you have no idea what the other person is feeling.

William S. Burroughs

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.

Katharine Hepburn

The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know.

Harry S Truman

The wicked at heart probably know something.

Woody Allen

I'm not offended by dumb blonde jokes because I know that I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde.

Dolly Parton

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

Woody Allen

So, fall asleep love, loved by me...for I know love, I am loved by thee.

Robert Browning

The eye by which I see God is the same as the eye by which God sees me. My eye and God's eye are one and the same-one in seeing, one in knowing, and one in loving.

Meister Eckhart

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Baruch Spinoza

The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.

Blaise Pascal

We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.

Blaise Pascal

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Helen Keller

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

Oscar Levant

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publilius Syrus

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

Chuang Tzu

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Blaise Pascal

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Chuang Tzu

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

Maurice Maeterlinck

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

Patrick Henry

I know of no way to judge the future but by the past.

Patrick Henry