"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius 
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
Music produces a kind of pleasure
which human nature cannot do without.
- Confucius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns
I feel the need to express something,
but I don't know what it is I want to express.
- the movie Interiors
Half the people you know are below average.
- Anonymous
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world.
I know because I've done it thousands of times.
- Mark Twain
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
He early on let her know who is the boss.
He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss."
- Anonymous humor
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is,
he's stuck with so many bad actors
who don't know how to play funny.
- Garrison Keillor
You know, it takes two to get one in trouble.
- the movie She Done Him Wrong (1933)
You know what? Maybe there's a good reason
donkeys shouldn't talk.
- the movie Shrek (2001)
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
Yeah I called her up. She gave me a bunch of ...
about me not listening to her, or something.
I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention.
- the movie Dumb & Dumber (1994)
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
I don't know, I don't care,
and it doesn't make any difference!
- Albert Einstein
We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
If you ask me anything I don't know,
I'm not going to answer.
- Yogi Berra
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
You wanna know the meaning of life?
Fugedaboudit - It ain't happnin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are three hundred and sixty-four days
when you might get un-birthday presents,
and only one for birthday presents, you know.
- Lewis Carroll
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
The most difficult thing in the world
is to know how to do a thing
and to watch somebody else doing it wrong,
without comment.
- Theodore. H. White
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
- Mark Twain
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer
There are four stages in a marriage.
First there's the affair,
then the marriage,
then children
and finally the fourth stage,
without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
- Norman Mailer
I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
- John Lennon
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
- Steve Martin
Is it ignorance or apathy?
Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
- Jimmy Buffett
People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because
he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong
only because he has remained silent.
- Winston Churchill
I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
I refuse to answer that question
on the grounds that I don't know the answer
- Douglas Adams
You know your god is man-made when he
hates all the same people you do.
- Anonymous
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure,
till you know there is no hook beneath it.
- Thomas Jefferson
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
A person is smart. People are dumb,
panicky dangerous animals and you know it.
Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew
the Earth was the center of the universe.
Five hundred years ago,
everybody knew the Earth was flat,
and fifteen minutes ago,
you knew that humans were alone on this planet.
Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.
- the movie Men in Black
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink.
I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.
We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon
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