Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harper Lee

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

Halle Berry

The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces.

Iain Banks

What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn't lead to wisdom? And what's wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?

Horace

Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze. [Lat., Virtus repulse nescia sordidae, Intaminatis fulget honoribus; Nec sumit aut ponit secures Arbitrio popularis aurae.]

Gore Vidal

Style...is knowing who you are...

Friedrich Nietzsche

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.

George Bernard Shaw

Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.

Galileo Galilei

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

Fred Brooks

But I will argue that knowing complete product requirements up front is a quite rare exception, not the norm.

Erich Fromm

To live is to be born every minute. Death occurs when birth stops.

Eric Clapton

I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me - it resonated.

Gary Oldman

Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.

Gary Oldman

Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.

George Horace Lorimer

If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking too closely into the nature of things, studying them only so far as they seem to be good, and abandoning interest in them as soon as their darker feature begin to appear. The good only deserves a hearty interest.

Chris Hoy

If you go to the line knowing you have given it absolutely 100% in every training session you have done, you know that there's nothing else you could have done and that helps you to deal with the pressure.

George Stigler

...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.

George Soros

Markets are imperfect. So you do need regulation, knowing that the regulators are also human.

George Orwell

There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.

Jean Cocteau

It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.

Jean Cocteau

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

Gail Simmons

I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!

Frederick Carl Frieseke

Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frederick Buechner

Don't look down on them for looking down on us. Look at them, instead, as friends we don't know yet and who don't yet know what they are missing in not knowing us.

Frank Smith

We are learning all the time - about the world and about ourselves. We learn without knowing that we are learning and we learn without effort every moment of the day. We learn what is interesting to us... and we learn from what makes sense to us, because there is nothing to learn from what confuses us except that it is confusing.

Fernando Pessoa

But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?

Fernando Pessoa

There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.

Feist

There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.