Top 60 Quotes About Better Off Not Knowing
#1. When I first started as an editorial cartoonist, I was terrified on a daily basis. Filling that hole the next day, knowing that tens of thousands of people were going to expect something funny. There is still that pressure, but you kind of learn how to cope with it a little better.
Steve Breen
#2. Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.
Robin McKinley
#3. The spouses of authors ought to really read their better halves books. What is found amidst those pages may enlighten them to knowing a side of their partner that can only be seen on the written page.
Sai Marie Johnson
#4. I don't like shoppy people. I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#5. I have to be better about living in the not knowing.
Steven Rowley
#6. the safest place to keep your secrets is to keep them in your mind with a locked tongue
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#7. The saddest thing is there won't be anyone to miss us when we're gone. No family, no friends, no one waiting at home."
"It's better that way," I said. "It'll be easier for me, knowing my death doesn't add to anyone's pain."
"If you can't give anyone pain, then you can't give them joy either.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#8. No good coming from the truth? Knowing the truth is always good. And better that it's us discovering it than someone else, right?
Hugh Howey
#9. I train jiu jitsu because I love jiu jitsu. But I also train knowing that my practice in this art will allow me better practice in any art. If you have learned one thing, you have learned all things, because you have learned how to learn. I can think of no more worthwhile pursuit of education.
Chris Matakas
#10. For a man under suspicion movement is better than rest, for the man who is at rest can always, without knowing it, be on the scales being weighed together with his sins.
Franz Kafka
#11. I don't know you very well, and i'm almost afraid to know you better. Maybe i love you because i don't know you. Maybe if i knew what you were really like and what you wanted out of life and what you think is important, I wouldn't care for you at all and that would be the end of this.
Elliot Mabeuse
#12. Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.
Huston Smith
#13. Knowing what you can do at any given time to look and feel better is pretty powerful.
Bobbi Brown
#14. Among all these stupid pretty women she had such a sense of power, of knowing almost everything better than they did.
Edith Wharton
#15. Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to
you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something
bigger and better than your current situation.
Brian Tracy
#16. Ben West points out that even from a selfish perspective, earning to give allows you to have things that people believe make them happy, like money and a high-status job, while still getting the fulfillment that comes from knowing you are helping to make the world a better place.
Peter Singer
#17. Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.
Nami Mun
#18. I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better.
Vincent Van Gogh
#19. If I were you, I wouldn't try and track her down."
"Why not?"
"Because when it comes to Dee, you're better off not knowing where she's going or what she's up to. You'll only have to lie to the authorities later.
Shelly Laurenston
#20. People who have babies tell me I will know a love that is beyond anything I can imagine, and a joy that is indescribable. Love and joy? That sounds horrifying. I have no way of knowing whether I can handle either of those. I'm much better with need and fear. They are what ground me.
Marc Maron
#21. Devote yourself to getting to know Him better, then you will grow in that righteousness which is in you, in peace, in joy and God will look after other people and solve their problems for them.
Sunday Adelaja
#22. I like the idea of knowing that somebody somewhere made a difference so that your life could be better.
Debby Ryan
#23. For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
Ian Thorpe
#24. I gave people who didn't know what to say the best advice I could muster, which was that it was better to say anything rather than pretend that nothing was wrong. My hunch was that Mom would simply appreciate knowing that people were thinking of her.
Will Schwalbe
#25. It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.
Hannah Kearney
#26. And I said to him when you learn to read then you learn everything you didnt know before. But when you write you write only what you know allready so patientia Im better off not knowing how to write because the ass is the ass
Umberto Eco
#27. Knowing there is no cavalry is much better than hoping for a cavalry that never comes. I am strong because I have to be. I am the cavalry. (314)
Monica Holloway
#28. It made Claire feel so much better knowing that even though she'd almost died, appearances were maintained.
Aleatha Romig
#29. We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
Dora Russell
#30. Perry, Jeremy, Man, Just knowing that you guys look up to me, And I can help you out so much, I could pull you to the side when we're working out. And just as much as you think I'm making you better, You elevate my game.
Kevin Durant
#31. Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side
Kanye West
#32. We who are so lucky as to be born into the light - who see it every day and never think about it, we're blessed. We could have been born shadow souls who live and die in crimson darkness, never even knowing that somewhere there is something better.
L.J.Smith
#33. Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.
Beth Ditto
#34. Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#35. Every morning the gazelle wakes up knowing she must run faster than the lion or will be dead. Every morning the lion wakes up knowing he must run faster than the gazelle or he'll starve. It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun rises you better start to run.
Mia Couto
#36. When we're young, we think we are the only species worth knowing. But the more I come to know people, the better I like ravens.
Louise Erdrich
#37. I sleep so much better at night, knowing that America is protected from thin pickles and fast ketchup.
Orrin Hatch
#38. This is the reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little you might come to know me better there".
-Aslan, Voyage of the Dawn Treader
C.S. Lewis
#39. The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
D. A. Carson
#40. I've said many times that in a way I think it might have been Bo who saved me. I was trying to save him, but I came out the other side a better person for knowing him.
Mercy Celeste
#41. The hardest part of changing things is knowing how much needs changing,
Martina Boone
#42. For pragmatic reasons, I love the routine. I love the structure of it. I love knowing that my days are free. I know where I'm going at night. I know my life is kind of orderly. I just like that better.
Andrea Martin
#43. Something heavy and cold at his core lightened. Hugging wasn't what he'd had in mind, but maybe it was better. It shouldn't surprise him, her knowing what he needed more than he did.
Veronica Rossi
#44. The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding more is better than knowing and understanding less.
William A. Henry III
#45. Somehow I felt better toward him, knowing that he had possessed some instinct to fight back. It was something I needed to believe - that all men possess, somewhere, the dignity to value their own lives. If only enough to scratch the arm of the one who throws you to the wolves.
Randall Wallace
#46. Have you ever wanted something so much that you would do anything to have it - even knowing that it was bad for you?"
"Of course," Adam replied. "All truly enjoyable things in life are invariably bad for you - and they are even better when done to excess.
Lisa Kleypas
#47. She had this uncanny sense of seeing things the way they were instead of the way you'd want them to be, of knowing me better than I knew myself. She could sniff out the truth even if it hurt.
Mike Gayle
#49. Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.
Audrey Niffenegger
#50. You're better off not knowing the truth. You're just as much of a monster as I am.
Millicent Nankivell
#51. Sometimes you were better off not knowing, rather than finding yourself literally in the dark.
Patricia Gibney
#52. An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.
Paul Lynde
#53. The world is full of things we're better off not knowing.
Ann Patchett
#54. The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'
Matthew Macfadyen
#55. We can imagine the two of them having this conversation: Consciousness: "Hey, watcha doing over there?" Subconsciousness: "Trust me, you're better off not knowing." Self-protection
Hugh Howey
#56. If your opinion is negative, the world is better off not knowing it.
K.L. Adams
#57. The truth is the truth. You are better off knowing the truth than not knowing it.
Jack Canfield
#58. While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we did.
Barack Obama
#59. Sometimes I think I was better off not knowing any men. I truly had no idea they could be so very stupid." She sighed. "It's quite disappointing, really.
Celeste Bradley
#60. Maybe I'd just figured out there were some things you were better off not knowing
Sarah Dessen