Top 100 Do Not Know Quotes
#1. I don't know whether I love Gina. I doubt it very much. I would not make any sacrifices for her. I do not know whether I can love at all. I can desire and can seek myself in others; I can listen for an echo, demand a mirror, seek pleasure, and all that can look like love.
Hermann Hesse
#2. The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know.
P.D. Ouspensky
#3. My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.
Rumi
#4. None of us knows the wisdom of the Lord. We do not know in advance exactly how He would get us from where we are to where we need to be, but He does offer us broad outlines in our patriarchal blessings. We encounter many bumps, bends, and forks in the road of life that leads to the eternities.
James E. Faust
#5. To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.
Galileo Galilei
#6. Thus natural science is not a way of knowing the real world; its value lies not in its truth but in its utility; by scientific thought we do not know nature, we dismember it in order to master it.
R.G. Collingwood
#7. The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.
Saint John Chrysostom
#8. I do not know
if I
will ever be
complete,
but I know
whatever I am,
You
will always be
the rest of
me.
Tyler Knott Gregson
#9. Shall we all be saved? Shall we go to Heaven? Alas, my children, we do not know at all! But I tremble when I see so many souls lost these days. See, they fall into Hell as leaves fall from the trees at the approach of winter.
John Vianney
#10. I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.
Joseph De Maistre
#11. In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.
C.S. Lewis
#12. In every situation and circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#13. We all believe we are in complete control. When really, we do not know the beginning, middle or end.
Tammy Kling
#14. Very often we call something modern because we do not know what is ancient; many so-called "modern" ideas are really old errors with new labels.
Fulton J. Sheen
#15. I swear on everything holy I do not know what's on the Internet about me.
Iris Apfel
#16. I do not know whether many people realize how much more than is ever written there really is in a story - how many parts of it are never told - how much more really happened than there is in the book one holds in one's hand and pores over.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#17. In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
Guy De Maupassant
#18. Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously.
Swami Vivekananda
#19. Do not boast about tomorrow, y for you do not know what a day may bring.
Anonymous
#20. I do not know exactly why, but it seems to me that images do not belong to anybody but are instead there, at the disposal of all.
Maurizio Cattelan
#21. What a denial of our humanity that at the centers of power, where decisions are made, there is no room for nurturing, for love, and children. There is more to life than the 'inhuman' work place. It is terrible that many men do not know that: it is a tragedy if women follow them.
Dora Russell
#22. God desires that through us the ones who do not know him will be convinced
Sunday Adelaja
#23. I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
Epicurus
#24. When you see a new trail, or a footprint you do not know, follow it to the point of knowing. - SIOUX PROVERB
Jeff Brown
#25. I truly do not know, and that unnameable feeling that comes with not knowing: it must be worse than grief. It must.
Dexter Palmer
#27. If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys.
Chief Dan George
#28. My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.
Antonio Porchia
#29. Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before.
Norman Mailer
#30. I believe in intuitions and inspirations ... I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.
Albert Einstein
#32. A clear conscience is absolutely essential for distinguishing between the voice of God and the voice of the enemy. Unconfessed sin is a prime reason why many do not know God's will.
Winkie Pratney
#33. You do not know the dishonest purposes of these men as well as I do," Douglas told Lincoln of the secessionists. "If I were president, I'd convert or hang them all within forty-eight hours.
Scott Farris
#35. Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#36. So we are stuck with a theory, and we do not know whether it is right or wrong, but we do know that it is a little wrong, or at least incomplete. In
Bill Bryson
#37. Without any formal personal finance education or trustworthy resources to tell them otherwise, the majority of people in the 18-to-24-year-old age bracket do not know how to use credit effectively, tackle debt or make wise decisions when it comes to spending.
Alexa Von Tobel
#38. We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him.
C.S. Lewis
#39. Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor- not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.
Paul The Apostle
#40. Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.
Gautama Buddha
#41. In order to attract us, the Lord grants us many graces that we believe can easily obtain Heaven for us. We do not know, however, that in order to grow, we need hard bread: the cross, humiliation, trials and denials.
Pio Of Pietrelcina
#42. My voice is who I am, who I was when I was 3, and who I am going to be when I am 90 years old. When I hit the stage and people do not know who I am, they automatically assume, before I open my mouth, I am going to sing a Bob Marley song!
Valerie June
#43. Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.
Hugo Claus
#44. 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
#46. The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of the world but those who fight and win battles that others do not know anything about.
Jonathan Harnisch
#47. I walk into this room
All eyes on me now
But I do not know the people inside
Look straight through me these eyes
Seeking more wisdom
Than I have to give away
Dave Matthews
#48. GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.
William Shakespeare
#49. Because I do not know the names of things, I do not express them.
Thomas E. Kennedy
#50. We have to remain humble about our understanding of the brain, because even our most powerful tools remain pretty blunt instruments for decoding the brain. In fact, we still do not know how to decipher the basic language of how the brain works.
Thomas R. Insel
#52. My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#53. That which is unique and worthwhile in us makes itself felt only in flashes. If we do not know how to catch and savor the flashes we are without growth and exhilaration.
Eric Hoffer
#54. I do not know of any sure way of making others happy as being so one's self.
Arthur Helps
#55. But I do not know the people I am crying for anymore. I don't let myself sympathise - I think it would be wrong.
Olivia Sudjic
#56. For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the ninth gate.
Garth Nix
#57. Like gods, we have created a new universe called cyberspace that contains great good and ominous evil. We do not know yet if this new dimension will produce more monsters than marvels, but it is too late to go back.
David Horsey
#58. Curious creatures we mortals are-how we do not know what we want, or how to get it if we do.
Jude Morgan
#60. If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.
Peter Sellers
#61. Christians, who do not know the purpose of their salvation, are actually just mediocre people
Sunday Adelaja
#62. i do not know why it is, vincent, but there are certain people in positions of power who take pleasure in obstructing others
Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
#63. Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
Maimonides
#64. I still do not know where the notes will come from when I accept a commission for a new work.
Lukas Foss
#65. The first step towards knowing is to see that you do not know.
Jaggi Vasudev
#66. Strange, that I came into the world with nothing, and now I am going away with this stupendous caravan of sin! Wherever I look, I see only God ... I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.
Aurangzeb
#67. There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.
Jane Austen
#69. You speak of the hand of Fatma, my friends, but you do not know the terrible power of this hand, the hand of monsters that menace you and seduce you with their subterranean access, their metallic splintering, their inhuman grotesqueness of idols.
Georges Limbour
#70. An awful lot of people are living only a foot above high water and do not know it.
James T. Williams II
#71. When you have never done a thing before and that thing is not simply and clearly right or wrong, you frequently do not know if it is a cruel thing, you just go ahead and do it. Maybe later you'll be able to determine whether you acted cruelly. Too late, of course, but at least you'll know.
Russell Banks
#72. Prediction requires knowing about technologies that will be discovered in the future, but that very knowledge would almost automatically allow us to start developing those technologies right away. Ergo we do not know what we will know.
Nicholas Nassim Taleb
#73. To walk in faith is to confess that we do not know what awaits us, and the faith I have embraced does not promise an easy road.
Russ Ramsey
#74. All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.
Zhuangzi
#76. We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.
Georges Duhamel
#77. Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of ... other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.' Upon these questions, this is the creed of intelligence.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#78. I do not know, men of Athens, how my accusers affected you; as for me, I was almost carried away in spite of myself, so persuasively did they speak. And yet, hardly anything of what they said is true.
Plato
#79. Everyone has to speak of what they know, and what they do not know they should ask,
Jose Saramago
#80. If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.
Emil Cioran
#81. If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.
Angela Y. Davis
#82. Their attitude is, 'okay, I am the customer. You are supposed to entertain me.' It's kind of a passive attitude they're taking, and to me it's kind of a pathetic thing. They do not know how interesting it is if you move one step further and try to challenge yourself [with more advanced games].
Shigeru Miyamoto
#83. I do not know what will be the end of it.
Ann Rinaldi
#85. Life is a veil, its paths are dark and rough
Only because we do not know enough
When Science has discovered something more
We shall be happier than we were before.
Hilaire Belloc
#86. They, the selfish ones, are like spiritual lame people who use other beings as crutches to walk on the path of life. And they are the Blind of Spirit who never find Love, because they do not know how to love and do not let themselves be loved
Ivan Figueroa-Otero
#87. For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.
Zhuangzi
#88. Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
Andre Maurois
#89. No one should be ashamed to admit that they do not know what they do not know, in case while feigning knowledge, they come to deserve to never know.
Augustine Of Hippo
#90. I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others.
Confucius
#91. I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
Galileo Galilei
#93. Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God.
Sun Myung Moon
#94. See that you are not suddenly saddened by the adversities of this world, for you do not know the good they bring, being ordained in the judgments of God for the everlasting joy of the elect.
John Of The Cross
#95. Ah, Hannah, you have never longed to live as I long to live if you do not know that another day is the most precious thing.
Philippa Gregory
#96. Whatever the lady does is wrong. I do not know of a single right decision taken by her.
Edward Heath
#97. When you do not know of a thing say so plainly.
Umar
#98. I do not know how to hold all the beauty and sorrow of my life.
Cynthia Zarin
#99. If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life
unmindful of its deep realities, unconscious of its grander glories.
Frederic Dan Huntington
#100. God who knows all things, I have no prayer book and I do not know any prayers by heart. But you know all the prayers. You are God. So this is what I am going to do. I am going to say the alphabet, and I will let you put the words together.
Neil Gaiman
