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Knows Quotes - Page 174

Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.

William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.68

What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?

William Saroyan, Leo Hamalian (1990). “Madness in the Family”, p.96, New Directions Publishing

Who knows what oversensitive is, considering all there is to be sensitive to.

William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999”

I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

Edgar I. Ailor, William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “BLUE HIGHWAYS Revisited”, p.311, University of Missouri Press

Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees?

William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.204, Hachette UK

To know one thing thoroughly would be to know the universe.

William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.221, Courier Corporation

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

William Hazlitt (1821). “Table-talk: Or Original Essays”, p.167

Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.

William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.242

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.

Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. November 21, 2003.

Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.

William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.118, Penguin

That's what I can't stand. I know I'll bounce back, and that's what I can't stand.

William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”, Harcourt

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.

William Empson (2000). “The complete poems”, Lane, Allen