Quotes About Not Knowing Someone You Thought You Know

#1. What a world, thought Kugel; whoever you were, wherever you were, whatever time of the day or night, you could open your back door and call out I know you're out there motherfucker, and nine times out of ten you'd be right.

Shalom Auslander

#2. News is something worth knowing that you didn't know already. (by an "earnest young woman" in his journalism class)

David Brinkley

#3. I told her why we are here. I told you wouldn't hurt Jack."
"The coffin?"
I smiled. I couldn't help it. He was a 'jack in a box.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#4. What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I'd seen her as a child sees a good mother
pure, transparent, incapable of deception.

Rhonda Riley

#5. Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves.

Wayne Coyne

#6. I don't always feel what I know I should feel.
My thought crosses the river I swim very slowly
Because the suit men made it wear weighs it down.

Alberto Caeiro

#7. All the same, she wondered if they did know what she thought and felt, if they knew without knowing, in that way the Irish were so adept at doing.

Benjamin Black

#8. Knowing what thought process goes into constructing a line helps an actor know how to deliver that line because you understand the intention behind the writing.

David Henrie

#9. It's not strange seeing her now, even knowing the things I know. I thought maybe it would be, but it's not. To me, she's still just Charlie - lover of Skittles and bed bouncing and scandalous raccoons.

Victoria Scott

#10. But the thing about people, Kell had discovered, is that they didn't really want to know. They thought they did, but knowing only made them miserable.

Victoria Schwab

#11. They know better than you, they're grown-ups. Jake thought that was bullshit. If being a grown-up really meant knowing better, why did his father go on smoking three packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day and snorting cocaine until his nose bled?

Stephen King

#12. But just maybe sometimes being even more patient. Even though I thought I did that much better this year, and sometimes, you know, make my opponents play that one extra ball, and just knowing how to play the big points better.

Daniela Hantuchova

#13. He was one of those people in New York who was purported to "know everybody". "Knowing everybody" is a phrase that denotes not having many relations with people but having relations with a few people generally thought to be significant and powerful.

Siri Hustvedt

#14. I couldn't imagine, you know, God having a plan for my life. I thought I planned my life out.

Jim Hamilton

#15. Thus natural science is not a way of knowing the real world; its value lies not in its truth but in its utility; by scientific thought we do not know nature, we dismember it in order to master it.

R.G. Collingwood

#16. 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

#17. Maybe she thought of me as a homing pigeon in human form, knowing that I would return, even if I didn't know why.

Bain Taylor

#18. I thought it must be difficult for him, for boys. They get temperamental when they can't shape the world into what they want it to be. It's easier for girls. Girls are raised knowing that the world is unshapable. So they know better than to fuss.

Joshua Gaylord

#19. Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* ... We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It's not heard or seen or thought it's felt. That's the original knowing.

Richard Rohr

#20. The root of creativity is found in the need to repair the good object destroyed during the depressive phase.

Melanie Klein

#21. A good education teaches you how to ask a question. It's knowing what you don't know; the skills of critical thought.

Ted Sizer

#22. you know things, without knowing how you know, but you know it is true

Avis J. Williams

#23. In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing.

Mireille Mathieu

#24. What if deep down inside you...you knew you were more amazing and magnificent than you thought you were?

Roger James McDonald

#25. The binding factor between knowing something and doing it is "passion". When your passion is concentrated in what you know, your work output will bind well.

Israelmore Ayivor

#26. Many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

#27. I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.

Leo Buscaglia

#28. Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

Pat Robertson

#29. People will think you brilliant
only if you tell them what they know.
To avoid being thought brilliant,
avoid knowing what they know.
Write to discover to yourself
what you know.

Anarchism is Not Enough

Laura Riding Jackson

#30. It's kind of like ... with our own checking accounts, just because it's in there doesn't mean you should spend it or can spend it. You know that you have the rent coming.

Jerry Jones

#31. As far as 3-D goes, I don't know if that will stay very long because things are moving so rapidly.

Jeff Bridges

#32. The things that I'm talking about not knowing, they're not mysteries of the universe; it's just stuff I thought I would know by the time I was thirty-nine.

Jeff Foxworthy

#33. But this was one way of knowing people, she thought: to know the outline, not the detail, to sit in one's garden and look at the slopes of a hill running purple down into the distant heather.

Virginia Woolf

#34. She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman.

Pearl S. Buck

#35. My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.

Nathan Myhrvold