Known Knowns Quotes

#1. When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don't know, do I know what I don't know I don't know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll - like nursery rhyme.

Errol Morris

#2. There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld

#3. There are known knowns, things we know that we know; and there are known unknowns, things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld

#4. There are known knowns and known unknowns, but what we should be worried about most is the unknown unknowns.

Gary Marcus

#5. The problem is that conventional questioning and research techniques are designed to confirm known knowns and reduce uncertainty.

Chris Voss

#6. And finally, there's the seventh doorway, the Doorway of Oneness, which corresponds to the crown center, located at the top of the head. This doorway has to do with feeling whole and connected to all of life, connected to spirit

Marci Shimoff

#7. The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

Augustine Of Hippo

#8. He is the universe's helpless captive, kept to fall into nameless possibilities.

Peter Wessel Zapffe

#9. Maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.

Lauren DeStefano

#10. I try not to get too cute for cute's sake.

Drew Goddard

#11. Maybe Simon Cowell for his effect on music. I call him Slimy Cowpat.

Mick Hucknall

#12. There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'.

Darren Aronofsky