Top 100 Only We Know Quotes
#1. It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#2. What we hide and do not say turns into another mouth that only we know.
Nayyirah Waheed
#3. I've realized that a lot of life is not what you say,see,it's what you don't say.People have to make up their own minds then.It's like a game, and only we know the rules.
Martina Cole
#4. Only we know what we can and want to give, and only we can be responsible for drawing that line. If we do not draw it, we can quickly become resentful.
Henry Cloud
#5. Knowing yourself and coming to trust your feelings and your intuition will open up your life to greater possibilities and keep you moving toward your goals. One thing I have learned is that I should trust my 'gut' instincts. Ultimately, only we know what is best for us.
Miranda Kerr
#6. More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses
it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#7. Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.
Glen Duncan
#8. How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#9. We know nothing of religion here: we only think of Christ.
C.S. Lewis
#10. We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the shape of the world around us
its size, motion and meaning.
Nawal El Saadawi
#11. No, the point is not only does time fly and do we die, but that in these reckless conditions we live at all, and are vouchsafed, for the duration of certain inexplicable moments, to know it.
Annie Dillard
#12. I only work with a couple of co-writers who I'm really close with, so they always know what's going on in my life and we talk about things openly, they know every song is true to something that I'm either going through or have gone through before.
LIZ
#13. It is a fact: Of all the people we ever know in our lifetime, the only thing we have in common with them is a handful of shared experiences.
Joel T. McGrath
#14. We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress.
Shigeru Yoshida
#15. We only grasp the gospel when we understand, as Paul did, that we are the worst sinner we know (1 Timothy 1:15) - and that if Jesus came to die for us, there is no one that he would not die for.
Timothy Keller
#16. What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that.
William Scranton
#17. We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#18. Pronounce a lover 'perfect' can only be a sign that we have failed to understand them. We can claim to have begun to know someone only when they have substantially disappointed us.
Alain De Botton
#19. Kind of, but it's more than that. It's like a lot of shit you've been told in your life is a lie. All these rules and all these things you worry about... they ain't got real meanin' on their own. The only meanin' they got is what we give 'em, you know?
L.T. Vargus
#20. We have to do what we have to do. Miracles happen. The life force of this planet is very strong. Dandelions poke through sidewalks. We don't know enough to give up. We only know enough to know that we have to try to change the course of human events.
Elizabeth May
#21. Perhaps it's only when people are dead that we can safely show how much we cared about them. We know that it's too late then for them to do anything about it.
P.D. James
#22. They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our stories in locked rare book libraries / our dances on film / The only part of us they can't steal / is what we know.
Chrystos
#23. It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. You must be aware that no thing is what you have taken it to be. You have got to be in a different state from the common.
Henry David Thoreau
#24. The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money ... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
Alan Watts
#25. A lot of the people I know connect through working. We're all so ambitious. Sometimes my friends will say, 'I want to hang out with you.' And I just go, 'Well, let's do a project together.' That's the only way I can.
Jill Soloway
#26. Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoughts and to know what makes another person human. Without writing, we just wouldn't have that kind of access.
Carol Windley
#27. I know any move I would make toward Darius, any act of recognition, would only result in punishment for him. So we just stare into each other's eyes. Darius, now a mute slave; me, now headed to death. What would we say, anyway? That we're sorry for the other's lot? That we ache for the other's pain?
Suzanne Collins
#28. Life is never beautiful, but only the pictures of life are so in the transfiguring mirror of art or poetry; especially in youth, when we do not yet know it. Many a youth would receive great peace of mind if one could assist him to this knowledge.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#29. No, I don't want to hear it. You've broken me for the second time, and believe me, Erik Titov, I won't let you do it again. The only thing we need to discuss is our son, and I hope that you know what you are doing. I've let you hurt me, but you won't hurt Dimitri. So go, if you are going.
Toni Aleo
#30. We usually end up finding what we are looking for, but we only look for what we already know.
Alejandro Junger
#31. Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.
Bertrand Russell
#32. I feel like the only reason we're able to find some of these unique ideas, characters, and story twists is through discovery. And, by definition, 'discovery' means you don't know the answer when you start.
Ed Catmull
#33. I really don't know why we need a whole month dedicated to blacks. It's not like they're the only ones that suffered. I mean, what about us whites? We're the ones that have to deal with these monkeys everyday, but you don't see us demanding a whole month to ourselves.
Zach Braff
#35. I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'
John Paul DeJoria
#36. To Thetis,
Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that.
-Seth
Richelle Mead
#37. I want to know what became of the changes we waited for love to bring/Were they only the fitful dreams of some greater awakening?
Jackson Browne
#38. I love and I hate, and I love arguing with you. It's very new. I need to know that we're okay. It's the only way I know how.
E.L. James
#39. We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only by the beams, light and heat. Election is a sun, the eyes of eagles cannot see it, yet we may find it in the heat of vocation, in the light of illumination, in the beams of good works.
Thomas Adams
#40. There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.
Victor Hugo
#41. We can think only of creatures, of things He's made. Creatures are all we know, and can be all we know until we know Him. When we think of Him like that, we find we can't believe. He can't be like a creature any more than a carpenter is like a table.
Gene Wolfe
#42. And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.
Mac Thornberry
#43. God knows, I'm no expert on relationships, but I do know when something's good. And this thing we've created between us is precious and rare. I only hope it's not fleeting, because for the first time in my adult life, I've given someone the power to hurt me.
Linda Castillo
#45. We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge ...
Aldous Huxley
#46. I know I'm not some matinee idol, but I think we're sold this bill of goods by the media, which says that only the most beautiful and dashing people can become movie stars. So when someone like me sneaks in, they have to redo the calculations.
John C. Reilly
#47. I'm going to say something. And it's the only time I'll say it because I don't ever want things to be weird between us." He looked me in the eye. "I like you, Liv. A lot. And I know we've got something here.
Alicia Kobishop
#48. Is it dangerous to plan too much? Yes, we all need to plan, to have a plan, but life goes on regardless of our plans and we know only too well what happens to so many of the best laid plans of mice and men!
Leslie W.P. Garland
#49. I don't believe our country will last the way we know it much longer unless there's a change. And we just continue this moral decline going down, and the only hope, I believe, is God. We just hope and pray that maybe he'll hear our prayers and give us some godly leadership.
Franklin Graham
#50. The only thing we know for certain is that Darquesse is coming, and she's coming to kill us all.
Derek Landy
#51. Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.
Samuel P. Huntington
#52. There are a lot of singers who cannot sing to save their lives. We have to accept it, but thank God there is such a thing as live shows. It's only when people are faced with live shows that the world gets to know how good or how bad they are.
Sonu Nigam
#53. I only know we loved in vain; I only feel-farewell! farewell!
Lord Byron
#54. It is important-even necessary-for us to become acutely aware of the fact that we can't trust ourselves. The only ones you can trust to some extent are people who really know that. We had better get this straight.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#55. I testify that Jesus Christ, born in Bethlehem, was and is the Only Begotten of the Father, the Lamb of God. He chose from before the foundations of the earth to be your Savior, my Savior, and the Savior of all we will ever know or meet.
Henry B. Eyring
#56. And as much as I'm telling her to stay here, I still want her to choose to come with me. To say fuck sanity and healing and closure. To say that I am the only thing she needs to be well and whole and alive. But we both know that's not true.
Katja Millay
#58. Because we see only what we already know. We project our own capacities - for good as well as evil - onto the other person.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#59. Why do we as humans always tend to remember the worse things about people? We may know someone for many years, know them as vibrant and healthy, yet when they fall ill and pass away, we can only picture them at their sickest, as though they were born and lived their whole lives wearing a death mask.
K. Martin Beckner
#60. We only ever had the one sun at home," persevered Arthur. "I came from a planet called Earth, you know." "I know," said Marvin, "you keep going on about it. It sounds awful.
Douglas Adams
#61. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of the future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.
J. Michael Straczynski
#62. History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.
Jill Lepore
#64. We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#65. Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.
Lisette Model
#66. Every single mistake we make in life is only but a new experience added to that we already know".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#67. We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of our weaknesses ... If only we could learn to live with our inadequacies, our frailties, our vulnerabilities, we would not need to try so hard to push away those who really know us.
Desmond Tutu
#68. Instead of wondering at this result of misery in Mr. Casaubon, I think it quite ordinary. Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. And
George Eliot
#69. I know the Lord is anxious to respond to us if we will only turn to him.
Dwan J. Young
#70. No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.
Dee Dee Myers
#71. My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.
Nikola Tesla
#72. We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that is the only thing that has ever threatened the perpetuity of the Union itself.
Abraham Lincoln
#73. Strange as it seems, we appear to be the only species who do not have an instinctive ability to know what food we should eat to stay healthy. All other animals do. We consider ourselves a superior species, yet we are destroying the only planet we have, endangering our very existence.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
#74. Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
Martin Heidegger
#75. I know now why God gave us babies. They require constant attention, of course. They make messes and disturb the peace, but their cuteness and smiles are something the only reminder of God we have in the house.
Ann Rinaldi
#76. The only thing that we know is that we know nothing, and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy
#77. There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.
Ida B. Wells
#78. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.
Lincoln Steffens
#79. Most of us walk around thinking that our view is best - probably because it is the only one we really know.
Ed Catmull
#80. It is hard to know when we have done enough for the Atonement to change our natures and so qualify us for eternal life. And we don't know how many days we will have to give the service necessary for that mighty change to come. But we know that we will have days enough if only we don't waste them.
Henry B. Eyring
#81. It is only when we let go of life as we know it that we discover true life - the glorious plan laid out by God.
Max Lucado
#82. I know I need him. And I hope he needs me. What we have is fucked up and twisted, but it serves a need. I know I've always been wired differently. He only brought to the surface what was already there.
Kitty Thomas
#83. This is the only time in our lives we fall madly in love before we know what the person is like. ~Ellen Goodman
Lesley Stahl
#84. Grace is found at the depths and in the death of everything. After these smaller deaths, we know that the only "deadly sin" is to swim on the surface of things, where we never see, find, or desire God and love.
Richard Rohr
#85. The awful scenes of death and suffering we were witnessing on our television screens have been going on in other parts of the world for a long time, and only now can we begin to know what people have gone through, often as a result of our policies.
Howard Zinn
#86. When a big event happens, people turn on to CNN, not only because they know there will be people there covering an event on the ground, but because they know we're going to cover it in a way that's non-partisan, that's not left or right.
Anderson Cooper
#87. There is no singular truth known to man. All that we know is but a fraction. Truth can only be seen in pieces.
Kay Whitley
#88. We are all at risk of something. Of ending up exactly where we began, of failing to imagine and find and know and actualize who we could be. The only difference is the distance of the leap.
Cheryl Strayed
#89. You know, we all have scars, Summer. If yours are only on the outside, you should consider yourself lucky.
Seth King
#90. Save the Children is often told that its aims are impossible - that there has always been child suffering and there always will be. We know. It's impossible only if we make it so. It's impossible only if we refuse to attempt it.
Eglantyne Jebb
#91. What I really want to shout, and want in big letters on that grave, too, is FUCK YOU ALL. Don't all women feel the same? The only difference is how much we know we feel it, how in touch we are with our fury. We're all furies, except the ones who are too damned foolish,
Claire Messud
#92. You who think of us: they lived only in delusion ... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die!
Czeslaw Milosz
#93. I dream my poems
and write my dreams.
We can only write our own dreams,
not the dreams of others,
for our dreams speak from our hearts.
For those who do not dream poems,
how can they know what dreams
their hearts want to write?
Jeffrey A. White
#94. We are living in times that demand more and more of our brains and muscles, of our nerves and physical energy. Only those who are strong and know how to keep it so, can stand the wear and tear. It pays to stop once in a while to look over our machinery and oil the parts that need it.
Adrian Peter Schmidt
#95. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.
John Green
#96. I know," I admitted, hating that it was true. "But it is only worth losing some lives if
we can win, otherwise the lives were lost for nothing.
Amanda Hocking
#97. We know for certain that we are not made right with God by our good works. We are saved only by grace through faith. And while we're not saved by good works, we are saved for good works.
Craig Groeschel
#98. We live in the best of worlds. But still, it's like we've lost something on the way to here: a sense of life. I can't know for sure, I might be the only one who's lost it. Maybe everybody else is living the now, thinking they're having it well. Anyhow, that motivated me to write the books.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#99. In order to change it is important to know who you are, what you believe, and how you became that person. Only then can we live more comfortably in the present and cease unconscious reactions that result in undesired outcomes.
Paula Heller Garland
#100. with each measured step,
we know
this earth is only as solid
as we are.
Sheniz Janmohamed
