Quotes on Knows

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.

People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what they want or are not prepared to pay the price asked them. The price varies from individual to individual. Some get things at bargain-sale prices, others only at famine prices. But it is no use grumbling. Whatever price you are asked, you must pay.

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.

Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow? Well, we can do it. We know how. If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.

Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better.

Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their decisions. I don't think they are right, but that's the way it is.

Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.

My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy.

I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again; it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.

Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.

And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know.

Funny, reely," he said. "You spend your whole life goin' to school and learnin' stuff, and they never tell you about stuff like the Bermuda Triangle and UFOs and all these Old Masters running around the inside of the Earth. Why do we have to learn boring stuff when there's all this brilliant stuff we could be learnin', that's what I want to know.