Top 100 Knows Best Quotes
#1. If anyone can be trusted, it's the Savior. He's always true, always faithful, loving, kind, right ... He never left me then, but stayed firm and strong, like a rock. I learned - even though it's tough sometimes - my Father knows best.
Ocieanna Fleiss
#2. Let's shut down the EPA. The state knows best how to protect resources.
Joni Ernst
#3. The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.
Thomas Jefferson
#4. Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, but then the title of the old sitcom, a homogenized portrait of American family life, was meant to be slightly sardonic.
Tom Shales
#5. Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by 'their happiness' is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That's not a bad thing.
Banana Yoshimoto
#6. As for the boys ... vulnerable fathers turn to time-honored defensive responses to maintain the function that father knows best' Parents, especially fathers, teach their sons to obey authority no matter what.
Martha Stout
#7. I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway . Everybody's dreaming and trying to put down their dreams in the way that their hand knows best . I feel as much a unity , as much comradeship , with painters as I do writers .
Clive Barker
#8. I really wasn't too interested in writing "Father Knows Best" and "Ozzie And Harriet." I thought they were pleasant enough, but it wasn't really what I wanted to do.
Garry Marshall
#9. Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.
Fred Upton
#10. Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.
Jack Kemp
#12. God knows best. He knows the man to provide what you need for the long run vs. the man, who is just currently trying to give you what you want right now, that is always subject to change.
Stephan Labossiere
#13. Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#14. It can be hard at times, but you must trust God. You shouldn't take things into your own hands. He always knows best.
Debbie Lynne Costello
#15. I hate to complain ... No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.
Abigail Adams
#17. Everyone thinks of himself, and he lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#18. Whatever happened to 'mother knows best'?
Orna Ross
#19. Mr. Obama is proud of his belief that government knows best. When he told the world that individuals were not totally responsible for their personal success, that government has a major role in it, many Americans were taken aback. But Barack Obama sincerely believes that.
Bill O'Reilly
#20. One of the central assumptions of the concept of democracy, perhaps its most central assumption, is that by and large human beings are better judges of their own interests ... The operating maxim of the democratic ideology is, Whoever wears the shoe knows best where it pinches.
Sidney Hook
#21. Thunder rolled ... It is said that the gods play games with the lives of men. But what games, and why, and the identities of the actual pawns, and what the game is, and what the rules are - who knows? Best not to speculate. Thunder rolled ... It rolled a six.
Terry Pratchett
#22. Sometimes I feel ... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance ... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do.
Charles Studd
#24. That's right. Obama didn't lie to you when he said, 'if you like your plan, you can keep it.' Why? Because, you sillies, you DIDN'T REALLY like the plan you chose for yourselves! No arguing. Barack Obama knows best, and he'll tell you whether you actually liked your insurance plan or not.
Sarah Palin
#25. Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.
Rainn Wilson
#26. The man who cannot obey God cannot say that he loves or trusts his Master. If God knows best then how dare we interfere with His will?
Alan De Jager
#27. God knows best. We can trust Him with our lives as well as our eternal souls. He does not take something from us without filling that spot with something just as good
and because it's from Him, even much better
Janette Oke
#28. The teacher knows best what these helpful connections are and must help the pupil to make them.
William Henry Pyle
#29. The British Government very naturally would like to see in India the form of democratic constitutions it knows best and thinks best, under which the Government of the country is entrusted to one or other political party in accordance with the turn of elections.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
#32. You'll see a lot of funny stuff, you'll see a lot of daddy-knows-best stuff, you'll see a lot of me and my wife trying to hold the family together.
Russell Simmons
#34. The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of 'doctor knows best.'
Eric Topol
#35. Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I once put my ear to the railroad track, I listen now for the voice of my story.
Jerry Spinelli
#36. Look before you leap. Don't take risks lightly. Make sure someone is watching your back. Safety is a shifting illusion, move with it," Grandpa recited in Hadadian before leaning forward and adding his own little ending, "And pray. Trust that God knows best, in every situation.
Jessiqua Wittman
#37. If you focus on the single question of who knows best what students need in the workforce, it's the people already in the workforce. Why not give industry a voice?
Sebastian Thrun
#38. In a conflict doesn't win who has more weapons but who knows best use for them
Miguel El Portugues
#39. If you truthfully can say without a doubt within your heart Dear Lord, Thy will be done, and God knows best!
John McLeod
#40. It's either I have to be in the trees or in the ocean, otherwise I lose my mind. I have to get connected with nature, otherwise I don't feel very good. And that's what life's about, feeling good, so nature knows best for me.
Greg Cipes
#41. I don't feel the depression the people who are always looking back to the '50s, to 'Father Knows Best' feel. I can see the coming of another glorious era.
Bharati Mukherjee
#43. Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.
John Selden
#44. As Barry Commoner, US biologist and 1980 presidential candidate, formulated it in his Four Laws of Ecology:
Everything is connected to everything else.
Everything must go somewhere.
Nature knows best.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Kennedy Warne
#45. There is a greater will, a greater need and purpose hidden within each life, and there is an inner law that knows best how each must live and that is worth stealing for; it's worth dying for, and worth living for as well.
Michael Meade
#46. Rev Run is a living legend of Hip-Hop, who's still making great music, but now he's also the dad to an amazing family, ... This series takes us inside his world. It's a kind of a reality 'Father Knows Best' with comedy, heart, Hip-Hop and drama-all under one roof at Run's House.
Tony DiSanto
#47. The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best
A.S. Neill
#49. America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.
Stephen Colbert
#50. Trust your intuition. You don't need to explain or justify your feelings to anyone, just trust your own inner guidance, it knows best.
Unknown
#51. The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning
not blind acceptance and "our Leader knows best" acclaim.
Mary Barnett Gilson
#52. It is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best best that we trust the independent and competitive efforts of many to induce the emergence of what we shall want when we see it.
Friedrich Hayek
#53. Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to ask the bears and wolves and ravens and redwoods for guidance.
Janine Benyus
#55. What scares me the most is that both the poker bot and Dropbox started out as distractions. That little voice in my head was telling me where to go, and the whole time I was telling it to shut up so I could get back to work. Sometimes that little voice knows best.
Drew Houston
#56. We must pray to God everyday to show we don't forget that all gifts come from Him. But if some wishes remain unfulfilled we must show our confidence in Him, for He knows best.
Johanna Spyri
#57. Fine. Seer knows best, even if he is nuts. Maybe I can stand to wait a few more ... whoa. What the hell happened to my car?
-Melissa
Scott Westerfeld
#58. The whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the myth that the Treasury either knows best or can run it all. It just doesn't.
David Miliband
#59. We really must keep under control, and pretty strict control, the area within which 'The Man in Whitehall' knows best.
Hugh Gaitskell
#60. Let us put our trust in God and console ourselves with the thought that all is well, if it is in accordance with the will of the Almighty, as He knows best what is profitable and beneficial to our temporal happiness and our eternal salvation.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#61. What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.
Nicolas Chamfort
#62. We lived a lovely, middle-class, suburban life in Philadelphia. And I really thought that the TV programs of the '50s, like 'Father Knows Best' and 'The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet' Nelson were documentaries filmed with hidden cameras in our neighborhood.
Richard Corliss
#63. Your first draft is a petulant teenager, sure it knows best, adamant that its Mother is wrong. Your third draft has emerged from puberty, realising that its Mother was right about everything.
Angeline Trevena
#65. Sometimes we don't know what's best until we're forced into it. Often you can be just as happy or even happier with less.
Peter Seidel
#66. Without any doubt the best player in the Premiership has to be Scholes. He knows how to do everything, and he is one who directs the way his team plays. On top of that, he has indestructible mental strength and he is a genuine competitor.
Thierry Henry
#67. To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.
Laozi
#69. I ended up living at OJ's because Nicole bought a home that no longer had a guest house. OJ offered his guest house to me. Anybody in LA looking for a place knows the best places to live are guest houses.
Kato Kaelin
#70. He's very competitive and knows what he wants. He has developed toughness in character and that is what is needed for Indian cricket. Ganguly has proved to be one of the best captains. He has now acquired great leadership qualities.
Steve Waugh
#71. The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.
Seth Godin
#72. Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who knows, if he hadn't had that terrible persecution complex, he never would have been about the best ballplayer who ever lived.
Sam Crawford
#73. It is best one should quote what one doesn't understand at all in the language one knows the least
Voltaire
#74. God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.
Georges Bernanos
#75. For me, policy is best when connected to the roots, and roots are best when connected to policy. So I encourage you all to stay connected ... and walk with real people while doing the activism. Lord knows we need folks who are engaged.
Simone Campbell
#76. It is not the man that can preach the best that is the most successful, but the man who knows how to get his people together to pray.
Dwight L. Moody
#77. Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.
Frank Herbert
#78. Girls are hard. They're very hard. I love my son. I hear the relationship between mommy and son is the best. Who knows? My husband wants a girl, he really does.
Tia Mowry
#79. Life's too short. You may be on this planet for 80 years at best or who knows, but you can't just pedal around and do the same thing forever.
Charlie Trotter
#80. Sonny, don't you tell me what's worthwhile
true love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that.
William Goldman
#81. Those who earn money know best how to spend it.
Anthea Turner
#82. Design is the best way to get from A to B when you don't yet know what B is.
Cheryl Heller
#83. I know I'm not exactly a bombshell, but one has to make the best of what one's got.
Joan Sutherland
#84. No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
John Steinbeck
#85. Never think that someone else knows what's best for you. Trust your way and don't ask for so much advice. Learn how to be quiet and still enough to hear your own voice. It's up to you: Your voice will either be silenced or will get to roar.
Maria Shriver
#86. Secretly incredible people keep what they do one of God's best-kept secrets because the only one who needs to know, the God of the universe, already knows.
Bob Goff
#87. I don't believe the majority always knows what's best for everyone.
Penn Jillette
#88. I thank Him for all the things He has both given and denied me, for only He knows what is best for me.
Elif Shafak
#89. He's the best physician who knows the worthlessness of most medicines.
Benjamin Franklin
#90. My husband is my best friend; he knows my sensibilities.
Vera Farmiga
#91. True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
John Hay
#92. A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.
Charles Caleb Colton
#93. The best way to know when there's good lighting is when you don't notice it.
Vilmos Zsigmond
#94. Your best friend knows some of your secrets,
your life partner knows many of them,
you know most of them,
but God knows all of the secrets of your heart.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#95. What I like that is getting our smartest and getting our best to infiltrate their [terrorist's] Internet, so that we know exactly where they're going, exactly where they're going to be. I like that better.
Donald Trump
#96. Most learning is social, or what I call the cultural DNA. Everyone knows that word of mouth advertising is the best advertising. That's social learning.
Stephen Covey
#97. Best way out," Elmo observed laconically, "would be to kill everybody who knows anything, then all of us fall on our swords."
"Sounds a little extreme," Goblin opined. "But if you want to go first, I'm right behind you.
Glen Cook
#98. You know you're a success when people tell you, "I like me best when I'm with you."
Denis Waitley
#99. The things of which we want the proof are those we know the best.
Emily Dickinson
