Knows Quotes

He who knows himself is enlightened.

I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

Every American knows there are government expenses that are absolutely not necessary. I disagree with the very idea that our government is spending $2.4 trillion in the most efficient manner.

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

I've been working some really long hours for the last five or six years. Anybody who works on series television knows, and especially women because women spend probably two hours more than the guys with all their hair and makeup crap.

A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.

It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.

Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us.

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days. People are blogging your endings from their cinema seats.

Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

A woman knows a skirt-chaser.