Top 100 Quotes About Know It All
#1. Riding is a complicated joy. You learn something each time. It is never quite the same, and you never know it all.
Monica Dickens
#2. He who thinks they know it all, is bound to take the greatest fall.
Colette Parrino
#3. ... What of this "despair?" I know it all too well... because up until now... I've climbed up, kicked it in it's teeth, and surpassed it... over and over again just to make it to this very moment!
Tite Kubo
#4. I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.
Ted Danson
#5. Writing is a puzzle you'll spend your lifetime unlocking. You will never know it all; you will never know enough. You can always be better, and figuring out how to be better is part of the thrill and joy of the job.
Holly Lisle
#6. 'Step Brothers 2' would have been fun, there's no doubt about it. Maybe someday. Does that idea age? I don't know. It all depends on how the movie ages.
Adam McKay
#7. What is really important is what you learn after thinking you know it all.
Waite Phillips
#8. It's hard not to act like you know it all when you do.
Nancy Crocker
#9. Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals. He's a smug, condescending know-it-all who isn't as smart as he thinks he is.
Alex Pareene
#10. Understand that you don't know it all. You don't know anything yet. What you've been taught is great, but always go with common sense. And don't marry your first love.
Gabriel Iglesias
#11. You certainly are Lord Know-It-All this evening, aren't you?"
"Only when necessary. Otherwise I try not to let my brilliance overshadow my giving and loving nature.
G.A. Aiken
#12. I loosened my grip on my opinions. I entered recovery for being such a know-it-all. I stopped expecting everyone to experience God or church or life like I thought it should be done. In fact, I stopped using the word should about God altogether, I sought God, and he was faithful to answer me.
Sarah Bessey
#13. An important mark of a good leader [is] to know you don't know it all and never will.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#14. The after-school specials of my youth seemed to be dedicated to exploring just these ideas. They brought us the mean boy who really just wanted to be included and the know-it-all girl who was showing off at school to hide her misery over her parents' recent divorce.
Brene Brown
#15. And I'm sorry I ever called you an arrogant know-it-all." "I never heard you say that." "Well, it wasn't to your face.
Adam Jay Epstein
#16. Those who think they know it ALL don't know what they are missing!
Tanya Masse
#17. My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all.
Elizabeth Lesser
#19. Its what you learn when you know it all that counts
John Wooden
#20. Life comes and goes. ... If you know that, you know it all.
Sandra Harner
#21. I think it's noteworthy that the Almighty didn't act high and mighty. The Holy One wasn't holier-than-thou. The One who knew it all wasn't a know-it-all. The One who made the stars didn't keep his head in them. The One who owns all the stuff of earth never strutted it.
Max Lucado
#22. Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer.
Gillian Cross
#23. A know-it-all is a person who knows everything except for how annoying he is.
Demetri Martin
#24. If you think you know it all, you really know nothing.
Robert Kiyosaki
#25. Keep learning; don't be arrogant by assuming that you know it all, that you have a monopoly on the truth; always assume that you can learn something from someone else.
Jack Welch
#26. Healing is too big a topic for any one person to know it all.
Andrew Saul
#27. I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.
Carol Ann Duffy
#28. Ugh!" Willow threw her hands in the air "Out of all the freaking warlocks in the world, I got stuck with the know-it-all who thinks he's Mother Tesresa!
Kayla Jo
#29. I do not know it all and do not claim to.
David Pratt
#30. No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.
Brian K. Vaughan
#31. They say you're big before you're small I'm sure glad I don't know it all.
Sara Quin
#32. Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances
Xenophanes
#33. You easily close yourself off to certain things because you want to seem like you know it all, or you're not weak - emotion is often confused as weakness - so when emotions are undeniably physically affecting you, I think it's a gift.
Kristen Stewart
#34. I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student.
Bjork
#35. If you're a coach, you've got to have a lot of confidence in what you're doing. Your egos are so large that you know it all anyway if you're a coach.
Bud Grant
#36. I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out.
But what I didn't know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn't quite know it all so much then.
Cecelia Ahern
#39. Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all.
Tom DeLay
#40. There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.
Geraldine Brooks
#41. Young people think they know it all, but a lot of old salts around know they don't.
Richard Jackson
#42. Always be suspicious of those who pretend to know it all, claim their way is the best way and are willing to force their way on the rest of us.
Walter E. Williams
#43. Searching, always. And yes, we all are, or soon will be, disenchanted, I still want to know it all: the heartbreak, the fear, the friendship, the anger, the love. All of it.
Nina LaCour
#44. I know how I could beat myself: by not being disciplined, by slacking, by not dedicating myself to my craft, by not working hard, by not listening, by thinking I know it all - short like that.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#45. I didn't know I came off as a judgmental asshole," he mused. "You don't. But you are a total alpha male and you know it." "All the men in this house are," he retorted. "Maybe, but I think we both know you're number one." "Have you met my wife? She totally runs me.
Cambria Hebert
#46. There's a shitload of insufferable know-it-all hipsters who will work for next to nothing for the privilege of condescending to customers about their musical knowledge.
Christopher Moore
#47. As for the accusation of intellectual pride, surely the boot is on the other foot. Atheists don't claim to know anything with certainty
it's the believers who know it all.
Barbara Smoker
#48. Sometimes Crawford's tone reminded Starling of the know-it-all caterpillar in Lewis Caroll.
Thomas Harris
#49. Live in harmony with each other. Don't be too proud to enjoy the company of ordinary people. And don't think you know it all! - Romans 12:16
Gary Chapman
#50. People love to help. I don't have to be insecure and know it all.
Chip Wilson
#51. It was strange learning the contours of another's loneliness. You could never know it all at once; like stepping inside a dark cave, you felt along the walls, bumped into jagged edges.
Brit Bennett
#52. Kolya was a braggart, a know-it-all, a Jew-baiting Cossack, but his confidence was so pure and complete it no longer seemed like arrogance, just the mark of a man who had accepted his own heroic destiny.
David Benioff
#53. Time spent in nature is time realizing that you don't know it all, that you never will. The earth is meant to be enjoyed by its inhabitants.
Abdul'Rauf Hashmi
#54. Believe me, folks, we do not know it all, and no one should be surprised at that revelation.
James Bunnell
#55. In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.
Ray Bradbury
#56. Watch, listen, and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.
Donald J. Trump
#57. I'm perpetual tourist, and that's the best way to travel. Nobody gets used to you, you make new friends without having to hear anyone's everyday problems, and you jet back still feeling like a know-it-all.
John Waters
#58. The smartest thing is knowing that I don't know it all and that there's more to learn.
Tony DiCicco
#59. My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure.
Cheryl Strayed
#60. An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.
Frederick Lenz
#61. Thank you so much for the rude know-it-all attitude while also having to look at your ridiculously colored hair and obnoxious facial and chest piercings. I am very fortunate to have just been schooled by someone who looks like they graduated from Care Bear Carnage University.
Heather Chapple
#62. The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return.
J.M.G. Le Clezio
#63. I used to breakdance, be a b-boy. I love hip-hop from back in the graffiti days, growing up listening to Michael Jackson. Loved it from birth. I know it all, from Afrika Bambaataa, the roots and the beginning. I came up in a good era.
DJ Khaled
#64. The clear and perfect truth no man has seen, nor will there be anyone who knows about the gods and what I say about all things ... ; for, however perfect what he says may be, yet he does not know it; all things are matters of opinion.
Xenophanes
#65. I am forced to the conclusion that modern medicine does not know it all.
Jennifer Worth
#66. Before ya know it, all of today's tomorrows slip into yesterdays.
Credit: Gerty Murphy reminiscing in Barnstorm
Wayne Page
#67. He remembered Zedd telling him that old age meant that the only thing he really knew was that he would never know it all, much less know enough.
Terry Goodkind
#68. But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.
Gary Sinise
#69. When you think you know it all, there's not much that you'll learn.
Ralph Marston
#70. When you're young you think you know it all, when you're old you wish you could remember it all.
T.A. Uner
#71. I've always been a know-it-all. I drive a lot of people a bit crazy. But I can't seem to help it.
Tom Noonan
#72. Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't..
Leo Buscaglia
#73. Sister Monica Joan murmured, as though to herself, but loud enough to be heard by all, How perfectly charming. Old enough to know it all, and young enough to blush. Perfectly charming.
Jennifer Worth
#74. If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
P. J. O'Rourke
#75. I never believed the anchorman should be the know-it-all. And I try to communicate that to the audience. While I have some knowledge from my years of experience, what I want to do is walk you through this because we're all walking through this together.
Lester Holt
#77. It is curious that I can't say who I am. That is to say, I know it all too well, but I can't say it.
Clarice Lispector
#78. The first day of 'Bling Ring,' I was so nervous and freaking out. I'm a know-it-all and was going into a situation where I couldn't predict what would happen.
Katie Chang
#79. A lady doesn't insist on having her own way. Then, next thing you know, it all works out somehow, without one's even trying. I thought I'd never learn, though it's really quite easy once you get the knack.
Lloyd Alexander
#80. There will be nothing to say something terrible has happened, but they will know it all the same. Nothing will be found. Not a trace of the girl in the midnight dress.
Karen Foxlee
#81. There's this sloth in the jungle walking from one tree to another, and it's mugged by a gang of snails, and when the police ask the sloth if it could identify any of its attackers, it says, 'I don't know; it all happened so quickly...
Iain Banks
#82. I texted Nightingale to let him know our change in disposition and then I picked up my Pliny, because nothing says stuck all alone in your flat like a Roman know-it-all
Ben Aaronovitch
#83. You really are a know-it-all pain in the ass," I announced snarkily, brushing by him rudely. I stopped quickly at Ellie and Adam to say, "I'm happy for you." And then I hurried by them down the hall to the bathroom to get away from Braden and his perceptive, growly, inflexible ass.
Samantha Young
#84. So yeah, Jesus does pretty good over here. But I met a guy who said he saw him hitchhiking by the side of the road in Afghanistan and nobody was stopping to give him a ride. You know? It all depends on where you are.
Neil Gaiman
#85. Not that she was a know-it-all - it didn't seem to be an ego thing with her. She just assumed that everybody shared her desire for everybody to be clear on everything, and she'd expect you to do the same for her.
Lev Grossman
#86. You're not a bad person," she told him, knowing where his thoughts had taken him. "I'm not saying you're perfect. You're cocky and a know-it-all and you're addicted to working. But you've got a nice big dick and great bedroom skills, so I'm willing to overlook all that.
Suzanne Wright
#87. I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film and TV stuff nowadays, these know-it-all kids who seem to understand the hypocrisy of the adult world so thoroughly and can talk about it with such articulateness. That's bunk.
David Small
#88. The sarcastic little know-it-all needs help, does he?
John Flanagan
#89. Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.
Aimee Bender
#90. The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
A.R. Rahman
#91. Then stop being a know-it-all lionpaw retorted You're not my mentor so stay out of my fur.
Lionpaw at Berrynose in Outcast pg 67
Erin Hunter
#92. It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Earl Weaver
#93. I think this is an exciting time to be a female filmmaker. Trust your instincts, work harder than anyone else and learn your craft. Know it all. This means learn how to shoot, edit, produce and direct. Get as much experience as you can and watch a lot of films.
Alex Hammond
#94. i know it all ends the same,
but i was interested in seeing
how you would break my heart.
AVA.
#95. I grew up Presbyterian. Presbyterians thought the Methodists were wrong. Catholics thought all Protestants were wrong. The Jews thought the Christians were wrong. So, what I'm financing is humility. I want people to realize that you shouldn't think you know it all.
John Templeton
#96. I don't want to know anything, and I want to know it all
David Levithan
#97. When you get to Heaven you won't need faith because you'll be able to see it and know it all then. You won't need hope because it's already arrived, but there'll still be love because the greatest of these is love! (1Cor.13.)
David Berg
#98. Now he's far away, floating in the clouds, playing Scrabble with the Dalai Lama, but wouldn't you know it, all the tiles are in Tibetan.
Neal Shusterman
#99. If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter.
P. J. O'Rourke
#100. That is the second time you have spoken out of turn, Miss Granger," said Snape coolly. "Five more points from Gryffindor for being an insufferable know-it-all.
J.K. Rowling