All Quotes

To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas

To kind of go through life not caring is a spectacular attribute. It's one I wish I had.
‐‐ Neil Cross

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
‐‐ George Santayana

To know a community is to know its food.
‐‐ Gil Marks

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
‐‐ Charles Caleb Colton

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
‐‐ Dorothea Lange

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.
‐‐ John Drinkwater

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
‐‐ John Ruskin

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
‐‐ Bessie Anderson Stanley

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

To know God's name is to know God.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas

To know her was to love her.
‐‐ Samuel Rogers

To know how a character will behave in any given situation is a necessity and a gift.
‐‐ Deanna Raybourn

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
‐‐ Cardinal Richelieu

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.
‐‐ Herman Melville

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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.
‐‐ Henri Frederic Amiel

To know is to control.
‐‐ Scott Reed

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
‐‐ Socrates

To know nothing is the happiest life.
‐‐ Desiderius Erasmus

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.
‐‐ Minna Antrim

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
‐‐ Henry Moore

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.
‐‐ Michael Novak

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
‐‐ Bruce Lee

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
‐‐ Albert Camus

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.
‐‐ Eliza Haywood

To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.
‐‐ George Wald

To know that every moment - regardless of how it comes wrapped - is a gift greater than you can give yourself, is to be well on your way to a life without fear.
‐‐ Guy Finley

To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
‐‐ Gloria Estefan

To know that once you decide to look at life outside of the narrow limits of just your world and start to understand that you can make a difference in very simple ways - in volunteering and all the way up to bigger world problems.
‐‐ Susan Sarandon

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.
‐‐ Marie Dressler

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
‐‐ Nicolaus Copernicus

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.
‐‐ Mark Caine

To know the rules of the game, you have to be educated.
‐‐ LL Cool J

To know we are being spied on by our own government, and to have someone else's government collaborating on that, to know that data storage is so cheap your information can be kept for years and used to create any kind of story, to me that's a grave attack on human rights.
‐‐ Sara Harrison

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
‐‐ George Santayana

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.
‐‐ Martha Beck

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
‐‐ Confucius

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson

To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks realize.
‐‐ Barry Ritholtz

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
‐‐ Lao Tzu

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
‐‐ Richard Whately

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
‐‐ Eckhart Tolle

To Koreans on the other side, we care about your freedom.
‐‐ Kim Young-sam

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
‐‐ Dick Cavett

To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.
‐‐ David M. Shoup