Top 100 Better To Know Quotes
#1. The truth doesn't hurt. Whatever it is, it doesn't hurt. It's better to know the truth.
Ricky Gervais
#3. It feels good to watch TV and know that you're being represented on somebody's network and for certain communities, it feels even better to know that you're being depicted truthfully.
Aeriel Miranda
#5. It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
Josh Billings
#6. It is infinitely better to know when to stay silent than to know when to speak.
Euphrates Arnaut Moss
#7. It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
Jane Austen
#8. It is better to know oneself than know to others. So not find fault others see first in yourself. When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.
Suman Jyoty Bhante
#9. It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
#10. Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#11. I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.
Arabella Weir
#12. I'm just tired of being disappointed by guys. I don't understand it. A breakup via text??!!" "I know. He's not playing the game of life on the same level as you. He's not even in the same sport. And it's better to know it now.
Sheri Fink
#13. So, did you need to hear that? Did you really need to know more?' Xas asked.
'Yes. It's always better to know more.'
'God help you,' Xas said with feeling.
Elizabeth Knox
#14. You have to be able to slow down enough to switch your focus away from all the ways things could be better, to know how good they already are.
Katherine Ellison
#15. It is good to know one's enemy.
It is better to know one's self.
Max Hawthorne
#16. Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing.
Blaise Pascal
#17. Everything can always be better! To know this is a wit! But if you also know that everything can always be worse and that is wisdom! Wisdom is to see both the lights and the shadows!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#18. Better to know a little, I figure, than nothing at all.
Haruki Murakami
#19. I grasped the who, and that was enough when I didn't understand the why. What I have learned along the way, and what Job learned too, is that it is better to know God than to know the answers!
Kasey Van Norman
#20. Love is far better to know, even if it slips from your grasp or doesn't bear fruit like you'd hoped. People who say they regret love, true love, are just bitter liar.
Elise Kova
#21. People say it's better to know the truth, but what if the ending's a bad one? Is it still better to know? Or is it kinder to keep that string of hope dangling? To believe that maybe if you just wait long enough, everything could still end the way you want.
Cynthia Lord
#22. There were people who knew about stars, who could tell you the name of every star in the sky. ... But she did not understand how it could be important to learn the name of every single star in the sky; surely it was better to know the name of every person in your street?
Gaile Parkin
#23. In Aunt Boo's opinion, it was better to know how to avoid danger than to avoid dangerous places.
Sarah Strohmeyer
#24. Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting.
Tariq Ali
#25. It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.
Henry Miller
#26. I didn't really want to kill myself, it just made me feel better to know I could if I wanted to.
Marc Maron
#27. I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell.
Kristen Stewart
#28. I think it is better to know the worst, rather than trying to imagine it.
Ellen Emerson White
#29. It is better to know how to learn than to know.
Dr. Seuss
#30. Tell me, is it better to know love and have lost it or to have never known it at all? [Camulus]
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#31. It is of course better to know useless things than to know nothing.
Seneca.
#32. Sometimes love didn't make sense. And that was okay. It was far better to know love and accept love than try to understand it.
Rachel Higginson
#33. I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered.
George Eliot
#34. For it is better to know you are ignorant than to be ignorant and think otherwise.
James Spiegel
#35. It's good to know where you are, but it's better to know where you're going.
Neil Gaiman
#36. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
H.L. Mencken
#37. its better to know some question than all answers -James Thurber
R.J. Palacio
#38. Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre
Leo Tolstoy
#39. It is far better to know the painful truth than to live with a kindly falsehood.
Lois Greiman
#40. Was it really better for human beings to discover more of their pasts? And then more and more ... ? Or was it simply better to know as little of the past as possible and even to forget what small amount was remembered?
Elif Shafak
#41. Rain makes me feel less alone. All rain is, is a cloud- falling apart, and pouring its shattered pieces down on top of you. It makes me feel good to know I'm not the only thing that falls apart . It makes me feel better to know other things in nature can shatter.
Lone Alaskan Gypsy
#42. Would it make you feel better to know that we all get the same number of hours in a day, days in a year? Some people might be rich and some might be poor, but none of them can buy time. It is one of the fairest systems in the world.
L. H. Cosway
#43. Sometimes it is better to know an unpleasant thing than nothing at all.
Cameron Dokey
#44. It was better to know what people were really like than put your trust in someone who just wanted to hurt you in the end.
Jennifer Estep
#45. In my religion it's actually better to know you're doing wrong and try to improve that wrong than to think philosophically that what you're doing is right and in fact it is wrong.
Jack Abramoff
#46. Ben Estes knew he was going to die and it didn't make him feel any better to know that that was the chance he had lived with all these years.
Isaac Asimov
#47. They said it was better to know your enemy, but how did it help to know that your enemy's one weakness was your weakness too
Cassandra Clare
#48. Perhaps death is all that waits for me across the great waters, but better to know death than to choose fear of the unknown.
Cora Carmack
#49. It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.
Donna Tartt
#51. I like the really human sides of people. To meet them and see that theyre complicated and weird or shy or any of those things sort of makes it even better to know that they can rise above that and make something great.
Elizabeth Peyton
#52. It was better to know something bad than nothing at all,
Taylor Stevens
#53. It is better to know something about everything then everything about something
Blaise Pascal
#54. It is much better to know something about everything than to know everything about one thing.
Blaise Pascal
#55. It was better to know the worst, whatever it was, than to be left in this hideous uncertainty.
Oscar Wilde
#56. Lord, you are God! You made us. Who better to know how to fix us when we've gone wrong? who better to set us to rights again? Who better to love us through the fire and refine us into something beautiful and useful despite our wrongs?
Francine Rivers
#57. But it was better to know of it than to see it in its daily monotony.
Daisy Goodwin
#58. And is it better to know?" he asked me.
"I can't tell you. But once you know, it's impossible to go back.
Diane Setterfield
#59. And old Indian saying: 'It's better to know one mountain than to climb many.
Richard Louv
#60. Many worry about their outer appearance much more then their inner bearing. It's nice to have great and expensive things such as cars and houses but even better to know the greater principles in life to help maintain and keep them.
Timothy Pina
#61. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former. And the world feels this and does so; for the world is often a good judge.
Blaise Pascal
#62. It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#63. It is far better to know God's truth than to be ignorant of it.
Billy Graham
#64. Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.
Trudi Canavan
#65. [T]he world needs us to be as flawed as we are. Everyone here needs to know that to get better. To know that they don't need to be fixed.
Tabitha Freeman
#66. But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.
H.L. Mencken
#67. In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
Michael S. McKinney
#68. I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be.
Anna Kendrick
#69. How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.
Kingsley Amis
#70. Some honest people think it is better to know the ways of the devil without being evil.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#71. It is better to know than to be caught between hope and fear.
Sue Harrison
#72. You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life ... It's better to be positive and wrong than negative and right!
Joyce Meyer
#73. But it's better to have bad options than no options. And people won't save you either, ya know.
J.A. Huss
#74. I think one of the big issues with, you know, people who have strong faith in addition to competing is that conflict between accepting things the way they are, and wanting to compete and get better, and at what point are you in the right balance.
Tom Lehman
#75. You never know what you can handle until if comes time to handle it. The less you think about it the better you'll handle it.
Art Hochberg
#76. The better the script is the more you can commit,but you can only really commit with full confidence when you know the material is as strong as your level of commitment to it and it frees you up.
James McAvoy
#77. I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.
Joan Cusack
#78. Even the blind men's dogs appeared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, 'No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master!
Charles Dickens
#79. You think that because I want to do what's right, because I want to make things better, I'm weak," Claire said. "Or that I'm stupid. But I'm not. It takes a lot more strength to know how bad the world is and not want to be part of that, give in to it. And I do know, Kim. Believe me.
Rachel Caine
#80. Yeah. Think I'll have to pass on the sex, though."
"We don't have to have sex just because you're staying the night."
"Oh! I thought it was the standard fee for the pillow, but now when I know better..."
"I might take that back..."
"Too late!" she laughed.
Lina Andersson
#81. Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to visit a vampire in a Goth-den tonight. Why, then, Ms. Lane, do you look like a perky rainbow?
Karen Marie Moning
#82. An army isn't made of its officers, you know, though we officers like to think it is. An army is no better than its men, and when you find good men, you must look after them. That's an officer's job.
Bernard Cornwell
#83. When I think back, I get mad at what they did to those poor men. Ernie must have had PTSD - they called it shell shock - and the doctors told him to keep it all bottled up inside. They didn't know any better, but it was like treating syphilis with candy bars.
Anita Diamant
#84. Why do we go to all this trouble' Parker asked. 'Men don't notice anyway.'
'Because what we wear affects how we feel, how we act, how we move. And that they do notice. Especially the move. Get dressed, smoke the eyes. You'll know you look good so you'll feel good. You'll have a better time.
Nora Roberts
#85. Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.
Carl Jung
#86. It takes all my strength to do daily tasks. To some people, I'm just a number. I'm a projected food stamps debit card lifetime member. I'm seen as crazy or insane, but it doesn't matter. I know I am bigger than my suffering.
Jacquelyn Nicole Davis
#87. It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.
Penny Marshall
#88. You get better at sex when you know your own body. How are you going to expect a man to know your body when you don't know what pleases you?
Eva Longoria
#89. I'm not sure if men really understand this, but I don't think there's a woman in America who really expects her life to be easy. In our own ways, we all know better!
Ann Romney
#90. What you think you know about a thing is always the first obstacle you face when trying to get to know it better.
Devon Michael
#91. I'm gonna give them the advice that I always took myself, that it's better to get to know somebody before you jump into the sack with them. Because then if you jump into the sack and fall in love, and you liked them already, you're home free.
Pia Zadora
#92. If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line was better.
Mickey Mantle
#93. I know that many, if not most, women would have a problem with my acceptance of what happened with Lara.
The reality is I shall always be grateful to Lara for helping my husband when I could not do so. I couldn't have chosen a better or kinder surrogate.
Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker
#94. People who know our music, they know who you are. They've been in the dark room, they know you better than your best friend, because you don't sing like that to your best friend, you don't sing in their ear.
Bono
#95. Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.
Robin McKinley
#96. It is better to believe even what is impossible to our own nature and to men, than to be unbelieving like the rest of the world, we have learned; for we know that our Master Jesus Christ said, that 'what is impossible with men is possible with God' (Mt. 19:26)?
Justin Martyr
#97. My father retired to San Francisco, and I got a chance to know him and be around him. It's always been someplace where everything changed for the better. It's always been a home for me.
Robin Williams
#98. As soon as he comes into view, I lose the war. The war I didn't even know I was fighting. It doesn't happen often, but when I do find a guy attractive, it's better when it happens with a person I want it to happen with
Colleen Hoover
#99. My apartment is infested with koala bears. It's the cutest infestation ever. Way better than cockroaches. When I turn on the light a bunch of koala bears scatter. But I don't want 'em to, you know, I'm like "Hey, hold on, fellas. Let me hold one of you. And feed you a leaf."
Mitch Hedberg
#100. His truths may hurt me, but at least I know that they're truths. My mom and Cameron felt the need to make me feel better. He has no such obligation.
M.K. Sutherland
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