When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Belief means not wanting to know what is true.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

You never know what is enough unless you know more than enough.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

They know enough who know how to learn.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers. And always, in the back of his head, there will be a dozen men and women he will never meet. And always, he will feel the poorer for it.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them.(Dec. 20, 2000)More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. they have no use for helicopters!More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thouMore [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Jesus whom I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for poor men to know how rich men work.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom. In terms of pollution, noise and human life, the price of that freedom may be high, but perhaps the car, by the very muddle and confusion it causes, may be holding back the remorseless spread of the regimented, electronic society.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]