Top 100 Know Too Much Quotes
#2. I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#3. I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.
Molly Parker
#4. Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.
Karl Pilkington
#6. Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.
Timothy Keller
#7. There is one subject in religion, about which you can never know too much. That subject is Jesus Christ the Lord.
J.C. Ryle
#8. You know what insane people are, Alice?" the Pillar says. "They are just sane people who know too much.
Cameron Jace
#9. If you are sad because you know too much, it means that nothing you know is good.
Sergey Vedenyo
#10. It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery ... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.
Lance Armstrong
#11. The more you know, the more you may know too much. Give time to let others speak and have a voice for a change.
Braxton A. Cosby
#12. Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
Al Pacino
#13. We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
Bertrand Russell
#14. Perhaps it is the nature of man not to wish to know too much about his own nature.
Roger Ebert
#15. Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.
Tom Stoppard
#16. Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants
both know too much of him.
Charles Caleb Colton
#17. As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction
D.H. Lawrence
#18. Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to
ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
Og Mandino
#19. Human beings actually have quite a bit of willpower. They don't know too much about it, but they have quite a bit.
Frederick Lenz
#20. Human beings want to know too much abut each other, and that's why there are so many lies.
Pete Hamill
#21. And so your personality is shaped. You know too much, and this knowledge makes you wary. You grow fearful and mistrustful. The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so you learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don't actually feel.
Christina Baker Kline
#22. The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
Margaret Mead
#23. I don't know how old you are. But I know the lie you hear. You are too young. You are too old. You don't know enough, or you know too much. The truth is that courage doesn't have an expiration date. Courage doesn't have a marker that says, "You must be taller than THIS to ride this ride.
Annie F. Downs
#24. I think it's OK to talk about your military service, but there's a fine line between, you know, too much and just about right.
Bob Dole
#25. In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all that stuff. I'm somebody who does better just hearing it. I'll just imitate it, and I get it better that way. When I know too much information, I'm not great.
Eliza Coupe
#26. You know too little and it doesn't exist. You know too much and it doesn't exist. Writing is drawing the essence of what we know out of the shadows. That is what writing is about.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#27. If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.
Mary Oliver
#28. You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.
Walt Whitman
#29. I knew about Heatmiser, and I saw them one time at Pine Street [later changed to La Luna], which was the center of a lot of alternative bands during the 80s. But I didn't really know too much about their music.
Gus Van Sant
#30. I am fascinated by the Royal Family because they are shrouded in mystique, and the Queen, and to a certain extent William, represent fabulous blank canvases. I find the Prince of Wales less fascinating because he spills the beans and we know too much about him.
Alison Jackson
#31. If you want a great site, you've got to test. After you've worked on a site for even a few weeks, you can't see it freshly anymore. You know too much. The only way to find out if it really works is to test it.
Steve Krug
#32. I don't know too much about Bollywood at all, but I've done quite a bit of dancing ... and not much singing.
Satya Bhabha
#33. Greta always wanted to know everything. Every little detail. But I understood. You can ruin anything if you know too much.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#35. What do you do when you're in a room of vampires and the most dangerous one tells you that you
know too much? You bolt. What did I do? I hyperventilated.
Tijan
#36. Jesus (pbuh) said, "It is of no use to you to come to know what you did not know, as long as you do not act in accordance with what you already know. Too much knowledge only increases pride if you do not act in accordance with it
Tarif Khalidi
#37. It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.
Paul Theroux
#38. Many of us may not know too much about our characters, but we tell the reader altogether too much.
Lawrence Block
#39. Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm need only to show up- wearing top hat and tails, of course.
Natalie Angier
#41. I find that women want to tell me about their birthing experiences. In the most excruciating detail. It's not put me off having children, but I do feel like I know too much.
Jessica Raine
#42. So in sum, what are we? We are the creatures that know and know too much. That leaves us with such a burden again we have a choice, to laugh or cry. No other animal does either. We do, depending on the season and the need.
Ray Bradbury
#44. The Archive makes us monsters. And then it breaks the ones who get too strong, and buries the ones who know too much.
Victoria Schwab
#45. All my life I have been surrounded by things I'd rather not know too much about, so I have come to feel that truth made naked without purpose is really a wanton.
John Wyndham
#46. I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.
Elizabeth Smart
#47. I think we know too much about actors as it is and their personal lives and it's this information age where we're stimulated constantly by the celebrity buzz effect or whatever it is, these web sites and blogs and different things.
Ryan Reynolds
#48. At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much at the start takes the pleasure out of discovering what the book is about.
Elmore Leonard
#49. I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint-old man propaganda.
James Thurber
#50. I'll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest 30 minutes of my life. I had to walk down that aisle between all the players. I really didn't know too much about the Detroit Tigers at that time.
Al Kaline
#51. Years ago I went into my laboratory and said, 'Dear Mr. Creator, please tell me what the universe was made for?' The Great Creator answered, 'You want to know too much for that little mind of yours. Ask for something more your size, little man.'
George Washington Carver
#52. The problem with a life spent reading is you know too much.
Josh Lanyon
#53. For a guy who believes in hope, Obama doesn't seem to be able to spread much of it around. How can he? We know too much now about the hollowness of institutions and the frailty of their leaders.
Tina Brown
#54. I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.
Alan Alda
#55. If I read too much or know too much it's not because I want to talk about it, it's only because it's interesting for me.
Karl Lagerfeld
#56. Let's not talk about how I am. It's a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.
Ernest Hemingway,
#57. Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.
Don DeLillo
#58. Iyther you dont know nothing or you know too much it dont seam like theres any thing in be twean.
Russell Hoban
#59. This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.
Kristin Hannah
#60. Know too much, young un," said Billy, "and that is one
Rudyard Kipling
#61. I saw this vision with a beautiful plastic bag in Kensington High Street, ... and then you didn't see the face because he had this blond thing [indicating a sweeping fringe across his face] that was, you know, too much!
Manolo Blahnik
#62. So many thoughts, my kvothe. you know too much to be happy.
Patrick Rothfuss
#63. It's really sad looking at people like Lindsay Lohan. She's an amazing actress, but you see what happens when people know too much about your personal life. They start not being able to look at you the same way professionally. I don't want that to happen to me.
Dianna Agron
#64. It's a hard time to be human. We know too much
and too little.
Ellen Bass
#65. The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
Lytton Strachey
#66. Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.
Ann Richards
#67. They've (Israel) lost the battle for public opinion. They claim it's because American Jews know too little.. I claim it's because they know too much about the conflict, and young liberal Jews have difficulty defending the use of cluster bombs in Lebanon or supporting the Israeli settlements.
Norman Finkelstein
#68. Look," she said. "You're right. You deserve an explanation. I think it's okay to tell you everything now - not that we know too much of the why.
James Dashner
#69. We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T. S. Eliot
#70. We know too much, and what might have been excused in other times can no longer stand up to reason. ... with that understanding comes moral responsibility.
Wayne Pacelle
#71. The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.
William Matthews
#72. I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which makes their lives one unceasing round of toil, deprivation and anxiety.
Vida Goldstein
#73. The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.
Damon Lindelof
#74. I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it.
Trevor Rabin
#75. Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.
China Mieville
#76. There are very few issues that lie specifically in one region now. Polio in Syria doesn't affect Syria alone. I don't think any issue can ever be isolated into local politics these days, because we all know too much.
Cate Blanchett
#78. If you know too much, you'll get old too soon.
Anonymous
#79. I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.
Pierre Bayle
#80. There are queer things, evil things, out yonder, and there are bones of white men bleaching in the sun who have sought to know too much. Curiosity doesn't pay yonder.
("The Great White Moth")
Frederick Merrick White
#82. I'm giving good advice everyday however I can help. People will hit me up and ask me all types of questions. I really don't know too much except what I've gone through, but whatever knowledge I have, I try and give.
Rahki
#83. I've always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician's work, rather than actually know the person. If you know too much about an artist, it somehow lessens their ability to do their work as well.
Christian Bale
#84. You can never know too much about writing. If you think you know everything, you're not leaving yourself open to learn ... The best writers are always learning, exploring, and trying to improve.
Sabrina Jeffries
#85. I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse, and he's one of my heroes, so I'm not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They're highly unreliable, and they've got brains the size of golf balls.
Sebastian Coe
#86. I know too much," said Horne Fisher, "and all the wrong things.
G.K. Chesterton
#87. You don't want captains in the army who know too much or think too much.
Robert Graves
#88. I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good.
I know too much to be good. I know myself.
I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly.
Margaret Atwood
#89. When I know too much I get bored too fast.
Nikki Sixx
#90. I don't like to know too much because I'm a terrible liar.
Alyson Hannigan
#91. The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see a film and not know anything about it. Sometimes I feel like we know too much about films.
Karen Allen
#92. In North America, many fans know Cristiano Ronaldo's smirk and can recognize Didier Drogba in a commercial. Maybe they know too much for the good of M.L.S.
George Vecsey
#93. Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.
Elizabeth Taylor
#94. I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.
Anne Rice
#95. It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
Malcolm Forbes
#96. Your hands already know too much.
Jewel
#98. I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.
Helen Reddy
#99. Each time I changed, it was as if, on purpose, I didn't want anyone to know too much about me, which of course now I regret, because I closed myself to everything. But it was my way of dealing with things.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
#100. I don't know where my songs come from ... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.
Judy Collins
