Knows Quotes

Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.

You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.

The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations.

You only know what you know.

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

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

I know what it means to be Jewish, and I don't think someone who wasn't Jewish would really understand.

I don't know. Haven't I always been mature?

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person.

No one has the right to judge you, because no one really knows what you have been through. They might have heard the stories, but they didn't feel what you felt in your heart.

I have these slumber parties with my father [Steve Tyler], and when we can't sleep we stay up all night trading beauty tips. He knows all about the good creams and masks.

Any middle-aged woman knows that our feet are not for the faint of heart, especially in midwinter. I wear clogs, so it's actually like my feet are wooden now.

You can actually have a pitch button, you know, to get people on pitch.

Anyone who questions my commitment, doesn't know me.

When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it.

I don't know if it's better to have people laugh at what you are or just not understand.

Of what I know, I have told you only a little. Why have I not told you the rest? Because it would not lead you to Nirvana.

I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!

To leave this world a better person, and for me to not be the only one who knows it.

I don't know if everybody is ready to hear a woman tell them so-and-so is going to run off left tackle. But you know what? They're going to hear it.

It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.

You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

The only truth I know is my own.

February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.

You don't have to know everything as long as you know people who know the things you don't

My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.

It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.

Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.

Hope is like yeast, you know, rising under warmth.

Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels, The less one knows, the less one really knows.

Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it.

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

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'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!

Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do

I'm sorry that I never trusted you. I don't know how to do that anymore.

It isn't enough for an umpire to merely know what he's doing. He has to look as though he knows what he's doing, too.

Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.

If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.

Well, I did say we'll put it out and we'll put it out when we can. But I don't know what we can put out or when we can put it out.

The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom; He knows himself but does not display himself; He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem.

The longer you travel, the less you know.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

Learn from the people. Plan with the people. Begin with what they have. Build on what they know.

I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me.

Those who know when to halt are unharmed.