Top 43 Knowest Thou Quotes
#1. To them that ask: Where hast thou seen the Gods, or how knowest thou certainly that there be Gods, that thou art so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.
Marcus Aurelius
#2. Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. Knowest thou not that kings have long hands?
[Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]
Ovid
#4. Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.
Rumi
#5. If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death. It were better for thee to watch against sin, than to fly from death. If to-day thou art not ready, how shalt thou be ready to-morrow? To-morrow is an uncertain day; and how knowest thou that thou shalt have a to-morrow?
Thomas A Kempis
#6. Knowest thou not who is most needed by all? He who commandeth great things. To execute great things is difficult: but the more difficult task is to command great things.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#7. Once through this ruined city did I pass
I espied a lonely bird on a bough and asked
'What knowest thou of this wilderness?'
It replied: 'I can sum it up in two words:
'Alas, Alas!
Khushwant Singh
#8. Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.
William Shakespeare
#9. Learn to see it in thyself and thou wilt understand the infinite essence, hidden in all illusory forms. Understand that the world which thou knowest is only one of the aspects of the infinite world, and things and phenomena are merely hierolgyphics of deeper ideas.
P.D. Ouspensky
#10. Knowing what / Thou knowest not / Is in a sense / Omniscience. -Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)
Piet Hein
#11. O tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each,
That bright and fierce and fickle is the South,
And dark and true and tender is the North.
Alfred Tennyson
#12. I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.
Bayazid Bastami
#13. O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#15. Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.
William Drummond
#16. Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal]
Isaac Newton
#17. If it seemeth to thee that thou knowest many things, and understandest them well, know also that there are many more things which thou knowest not.
Thomas A Kempis
#18. Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou hast, nor all thou canst.
Benjamin Franklin
#19. [A Buddhist monk on a pilgrimage speaks to a museum curator.]
And I come here alone. For five
seven
eighteen
forty years it was in my mind that the old Law was not well followed; being overlaid, as thou knowest, with devildom, charms, and idolatry ... '
So it comes with all faiths.
Rudyard Kipling
#20. Neither Creator nor creature ever,
Son, " he began, "was destitute of love
Natural or spiritual; and thou knowest it.
Dante Alighieri
#22. Lord, grant that I may always be right, for Thou knowest I am hard to turn,
David McCullough
#23. Thou knowest that these things which I say are true, and that I was never delighted in my own praise, for the secret of a good conscience is in some sort diminished, when by declaring what he hath done, a man receiveth the reward of fame.
Boethius
#24. I dore not always touch her, lest the kiss
Leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss,
Brief, bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin;
Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#25. [ ... ] Villain I am none.
Therefore farewell. I see thou knowest me not.
William Shakespeare
#26. My soule, poore soule thou talkes of things/ Thou knowest not what, my soule hath sliver wings,/ That mounts me up unto the highest heavens.
Thomas Kyd
#27. PSA69.5 O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
Anonymous
#28. The more and better thou knowest, the more heavy will be thy judgment unless thy life be also more holy.
Thomas A Kempis
#29. Have more than thou showest, speak less than though knowest, lend less than thou owest, ride more than though goest, learn more than thou trowest, set less than thou throwest.
William Shakespeare
#30. Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which may offend his pride, are oftentimes not to a king divulged.
Vittorio Alfieri
#31. Lord, if Thou knowest that I shall find, on leaving the house, even through obedience, an occasion of offending Thee, I conjure Thee to take away my life here, where Thou are really present, for Thou solely art my life, and I prefer a thousand deaths to causing Thee the slightest displeasure.
Alphonsus Rodriguez
#32. Thou knowest that my voice is sweet, That is if thou dost hear; And I am moulded in a form Somewhat below the mean.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#33. Given to thee. If it seemeth to thee that thou knowest many things, and understandest them well, know also that there are many more things which thou knowest
Thomas A Kempis
#34. Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.
Hafez
#35. Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
Horace
#36. We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us:
Kahlil Gibran
#37. Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin Franklin
#38. And human love needs human meriting:
How has thou merited-
Of all man's clotted clay the dingiest clot?
Alack, thou knowest not
How little worthy of any love thou art!
Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee
Save Me, save only Me?
Francis G. Thompson
#39. I will try and remember always to approach God in secret with as much reverence in speech, posture, and behavior as in public. Help me, Thou who knowest my frame and pitiest as a father his children.
David Livingstone
#40. It was better not to judge the man who had gone down under an impossible burden. It was better to remember: Thou knowest this man's fall, but thou knowest not his wrassling.
James Baldwin
#41. Thou knowest not what bitches women are," Danny said wisely.
"I do know," said Pilon.
"Thou knowest not."
"I do know."
"Liar.
John Steinbeck
#42. Speak not in high commendation of any man to his face, nor censure any man behind his back; but if thou knowest anything good of him, tell it unto others; if anything ill, tell it privately and prudently to himself.
William Burkitt
#43. Thus saith the Lord, the Maker of it, Call unto Me and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not.
A.B. Simpson
