Top 100 Less You Know Quotes
#1. Hey, Lou!" she yelled. "I meant to say to you. Moving on doesn't mean you loved my dad any less, you know. I'm pretty sure even he would tell you that.
Jojo Moyes
#2. As you know Jesus more, you naturally love Him more. The less you know of Him, the less you love. To know Jesus is to love Him.
Eric Samuel Timm
#3. Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.
Otto Von Bismarck
#4. Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies.
Jeffrey Wright
#5. The more you know about how things are the less you know about how things could be.
Horace Dediu
#6. When you're truly connecting with wisdom, the more you learn, the more you realize the less you know.
Yehuda Berg
#7. The less you know, the more you could believe.
Stephen King
#8. The farther you go, the less you know.
Laozi
#9. The less you know about me, the easier it is to convince you that I am that character on screen.
Kevin Spacey
#10. It's amazing how the more you read, the less you know.
Anna Breslaw
#11. Moving on doesn't mean you loved my dad any less, you know.
Jojo Moyes
#12. The more you study, the more you know; how less you know.
Imran Khan
#14. Kiernan, the less you know, the better. You're always telling me to just trust you and do what you're asking, and I do - "
He snorts. "When it suits you."
"Okay, but I do when it seems important. And this is really, really important.
Rysa Walker
#15. I believe movies are better, the less you know going in.
Joe Cornish
#16. More you know, better advice you give. Less you know, more advice you give.
Gerry Geek
#18. One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.
Margaret Heffernan
#19. This is hard to accept in the age of the Internet. It has been very hard for me to explain that the more data you get, the less you know what's going on, and the more iatrogenics you will cause. People are still under the illusion that "science" means more data.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#20. Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.
Michelle Malkin
#21. When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal.
Jeffrey Wright
#23. He wanted to believe it was of the Agency's unwritten protocol; the less you know about your associates, the better it is for both of you professionally
Derek Haas
#24. The more you know your beauty, power, and worth, the less you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The less you know your beauty, power, and worth, the more you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The more you know, the less you NEED.
Alan Cohen
#25. The more you play it the less you know about it.
Patty Berg
#26. A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.
Diane Arbus
#27. The less you know, The more you believe.
Bono
#28. I just think the less you know about an actor, the more serious you'll take them as an actor because they will disappear a little bit.
Peter Dinklage
#29. Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.
Charles Bukowski
#30. Thinking is usually a waste of time and energy, since thinking is essentially a rehashing of what we already know. As a matter of fact, thinking is an easy way to confuse yourself. The more you think, the less you know.
Frederick Lenz
#31. The better the actor, the less you know about his life. I mean, nobody's better than De Niro and you don't know anything about him, right?
Matt Damon
#32. The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.
Jerry Seinfeld
#33. The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.
Shawn Colvin
#34. The less you know, the more you will be known
The less you want, the more you will have
The less you are, the more you will be
Vivian Amis
#35. You don't have to go out the door to know what goes on in the world. You don't have to look out the window to see the way of heaven. The farther you go, the less you know. So the wise soul doesn't go, but knows; doesn't look, but sees; doesn't do, but gets it done.
Lao-Tzu
#36. The longer you travel, the less you know.
Laozi
#37. The more you know, the less you have to carry. The less you know, the more you have to carry.
Mors Kochanski
#38. You never know what you can handle until if comes time to handle it. The less you think about it the better you'll handle it.
Art Hochberg
#39. If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.
Eric Schmidt
#40. 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
#41. Dare to take chances.
Dare to take the path less traveled.
You may never know where the path may lead you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#42. You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fish.
Plum Sykes
#43. Oh, absolutely. James Caan was the first movie star I'd ever met, much less worked with. He was an important person to me and my brothers and Wes. Bottle Rocket was the first movie for all of us. As you know, back then, [Caan] was having some career changes, I think.
Luke Wilson
#44. If you ask me about vocal technique, I don't know anything. I could never be a teacher. I just know what my teacher told me: 'Always sing with a full voice. When they tell you, less sound, more piano - no.'
Anna Netrebko
#45. But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.
Barack Obama
#46. To tell you the truth, the older I get, the less I know. I keep meeting people, both older and younger, who seem to have accrued so much more knowledge or expertise or certainty about who they are and the jobs they do. I just marvel at it.
Hugh Laurie
#47. The less you think you know, the more will be known. It's amazing what you can know when you let go of being the knower.
Art Hochberg
#48. You know, it would be much less trouble if you were willing to bat your magic eyelashes.
Jamie Le Fay
#49. Did you know that the chances of being in a plane crash are less than 0.00001 per cent? That means that you're more likely to be killed by a donkey or to naturally conceive identical quadruplets. Bunty
Holly Smale
#50. Learn to forgive "HATERS" and people who think less of you. Don't bring yourself down to their level, because you know who you are. Be HUMBLE and shower them with unexpected love.
Henry Johnson Jr
#51. You know, there's a great saying in Texas - you've all heard it - all hat and no cattle. Well, after seven years of George Bush, we need a lot less hat and a lot more cattle.
Hillary Clinton
#52. Maybe. But you know, when you love someone you love them. And every day you sit back pretending that you don't is one less day you have with him.
Katie Klein
#53. If anybody is so mad at Vladimir Putin, you know what they could do? They could advocate for a gas tax. He gets all his leverage from selling gas and oil. If we had a gas tax that made that less palatable, he would be less of a player on the world stage.
Bill Maher
#54. A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.
C.P. Snow
#55. I think sometimes less is more. I don't think it helps to overdo exercising - I think you need to do it to keep your body healthy and fit, but there is a fine line between, you know, healthy and obsession. You have to build your foundation first. Your brain has to sort of connect to your body.
Martha Hunt
#56. Lanie, you live 15 minutes away from your office and you get there at eight. Over two hours every day just to do your hair and makeup. Diana fuckin' Ross in her heyday probably took less time to get ready for a show. Babe, if that isn't high maintenance, I do not know what is.
Kristen Ashley
#57. They said I looked like a foreign devil; they said I spoke like a foreign devil. I made mistakes in manners, and I didn't know delicacies that had grown up since my father left. They wouldn't have me. You can believe it or not - I'm less foreign here than I was in China.
John Steinbeck
#58. The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.
Amy Poehler
#59. The thing about Canadian women is that they seem less likely to bring up that they're Canadian. You here less about Canadian actresses than actors, I don't know why.
Dustin Milligan
#60. Kids certainly need a lot of love so they know you're behind them whatever they do, well, more or less.
Eve Branson
#61. As an actor, you know there are things you get asked to do that you do quite well, with less effort.
Martin Freeman
#62. I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life.
Anthony Hopkins
#63. Basically, in 'American Pie,' things are heading in the wrong direction. It is becoming less ideal, less idyllic. I don't know whether you consider that wrong or right, but it is a morality song in a sense.
Don McLean
#64. You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
Al Pacino
#65. Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
Henrik Ibsen
#66. You know, if you're going to stalk someone, you should be less obvious. For starters, try not to standing in the middle of a field, gawking at your prey.
Kristin Walker
#67. When we're talking about feminism, I get sort of lost in the argument. Because as a woman of color, I don't know where I belong in this argument. Where do I say, 'I would be happy to have less money'? How do you fight for your rights when I'm super-grateful to be here at all?
Margaret Cho
#69. Was it better then - measuring the loss - not to know happiness at all? Better to go through life waiting for what never came, because that way you had less to mourn?
Howard Jacobson
#70. The day I leave, you won't know how to pronounce my name. You could care less about me, and I should be dead and buried because there's not one media that will come and remember who Joe Arpaio is. That's the way it is in politics.
Joe Arpaio
#71. You know what I think? Very few people play because they love the game. Most of them play because they make good money. They keep playing because of the money. I could care less about it. If I don't love the game, no check is going to keep me playing.
Michael Jordan
#72. Keep walking. Hot night right now, right here. All you have is what you are. All you want is much too much. All you get is so much less. All you feel is nothing. All you see is darkness. All you know is senseless and all you can do about it is ride.
Henry Rollins
#73. Explanations don't comfort. You won't feel better if you know why. It won't hurt any less.
Rick Warren
#74. The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.
Keri Hulme
#75. I keep wondering if it'll ever hurt less. This...this hole in our lives." "Oh, I imagine it'll hurt less eventually. I think there will always be a hole, though. But lace is one of the most beautiful fabrics, you know. All those holes and gaps, but it's still complete somehow- still lovely.
Emery Lord
#76. A lot of people come up here and they thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. He didn't help me a bit. If it was up to him, Cesar Millan would be up here with that damn dog. So all I can say is, 'suck it, Jesus! This award is my God now'!
Kathy Griffin
#77. What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I've worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you're not considered conventionally attractive, that also becomes an issue: you know, you're a feminist because you couldn't get a man.
Gloria Steinem
#78. All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of reading it. You won't remember it, and you'll learn nothing from it, and you'll be less likely to choose a book over Big Brother next time you have a choice.
Nick Hornby
#79. I don't know much about kisses, but I can assure you that hers were no less fierce than a swarm of bullets tearing the air
Xavier Velasco
#80. I know this is new, and you're scared. I'm scared, too. But it's less frightening than the thought of losing you.
-Gavin Taylor
Kary Rader
#81. If you don't know what you want, you'll never find it.
If you don't know what you deserve, you'll always settle for less.
You will wander aimlessly, uncomfortably numb in your comfort zone, wondering how life has ended up here.
Life starts now, live, love, laugh and let your light shine!
Rob Liano
#82. I don't know what you can possibly do for less than $50 to have somebody come in your house.
Dave Barry
#83. Once they know they've got a hold of your shame, they can shake it out and hold it up for the all world to see. And you become less than it. You become something disgusting.
Kirsty Eagar
#84. I will have you know there is probably less pineapple at your average luau than in my system at this moment
Qwen Salsbury
#85. it's nice to know that when you get started each day seems to matter less than learning how to get started consistently, however
Timothy Ferriss
#86. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
Oscar Wilde
#87. Every day I like what and who I am less and less," he whispered more quietly than before,
"because I know you wish for a different life. And I cannot give it to you.
Penelope Fletcher
#88. Is a twist less satisfying if you know it's coming? Is a twist that you can't predict symptomatic of bad construction? These are things to consider when writing.
Gabrielle Zevin
#89. I need to know that you'll think about the good times we shared, and never settle for anything less than how you felt in those moments.
Lisa De Jong
#90. I know a lot of writers who would much rather be writing the Great American Novel, but they've got bills to pay and alimony, and so they take a job at a less-than-reputable paper. You know, you do what you gotta do.
Eric Stoltz
#91. Israel is so tiny. It's, you know, a little less than the length of Manhattan, without the West Bank, without Judea and Samaria.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#92. The more you know about another person's story, the less possible it is to see that person as your enemy.
Parker J. Palmer
#93. You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be deceived less and want to bear less danger, the more the enemy is weak or the less the enemy is cautious, so much more must you esteem him.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#94. The better you know something, the less you remember about how hard it was to learn. The curse of knowledge is the single best explanation I know of why good people write bad prose.
Steven Pinker
#95. It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.
Marvin Minsky
#96. I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about movies. You can't lie in either medium. The wonderful thing is that the camera, just like an audience, is made out of skin - because celluloid is skin.
Amanda Plummer
#97. I didn't realize it at the time. I really didn't even think about it, until you. I couldn't figure out why you were so different to me.I know now that it's not right ... But it was something. It made me feel less ... lonely.
S.C. Stephens
#98. Do you know how writers often say the characters take over ... But that is more or less what it always feels like to me, too. Even though that's just a way of describing how your brain is working, it's still what you tend to feel.
Wes Anderson
#99. The less people that are on the stage, there's more drama. You start living the music with each individual. When you see a band with ten people on stage, just a huge ensemble, you don't know who's doing what.
Greg Lake
#100. I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.
Sean Penn
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