Top 100 Quotes About They Don't Know
#1. That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.
Mark Twain
#2. We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have
Ernest Gaines
#3. The establishment irritates you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight because once they've got you violent they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humour.
John Lennon
#4. Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.
Anton Chekhov
#5. People have nervous tics they don't know about, and I would advise asking around. Ask the casting director, 'Is there something I'm doing?' I would see people unconsciously rocking back and forth. I roll my lips. I bite my lips and roll them.
Olivia Wilde
#6. Sadly, an average service that's well marketed will always generate massively more money, than a great service, which too few people know about. Think about it: People can't hire you, if they don't know you exist - regardless of how amazing you are.
Jim Connolly
#7. Why is it that people don't know what to say when something bad has happened to someone they know? Maybe because they think there are some magic words that will make everything all right again, only they don't know what the words are.
Ellen Wittlinger
#8. It's not easy to talk like this with other people because they don't know. They don't know what it's like to be hated by the people who are supposed to love you.
Rebecca Donovan
#9. People are most honest
when they don't know you are listening.
Thalia Chaltas
#10. My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
Oscar Wilde
#11. Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.
John Templeton
#12. The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get.
Mike Leigh
#13. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
W. Edwards Deming
#14. Some men are like oak leaves
they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.
George Horace Lorimer
#15. I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identified by their dental records. What I can't understand is, if they don't know who you are, how do they know who your dentist is?
Paul Merton
#16. As far as innovation goes, I can tell you that Korean students are reluctant to step out of line. If I ask questions, nobody raises their hands - not because they don't know the answers, but because they don't want to step out of line.
Dan Shechtman
#18. The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech.
Kathleen Troia McFarland
#19. There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, 'I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked.'
Jerry Seinfeld
#20. They don't know the distinction between taking care of a child and raising a child.
Charles Murray
#21. A lot of people misunderstand me. That's because they don't know me at all.
Michael Jackson
#22. I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.
Michel Houellebecq
#23. People try to make sense of things, and if they don't know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.
Ann Aguirre
#24. Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.
George Bernard Shaw
#25. Because they are ignorant and their parents are ignorant. Because they don't know any better." Pastel Orphans
Gemma Liviero
#26. Melancholy people have two reasons for being so: they don't know or they hope.
Albert Camus
#27. Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
Jesse Jackson
#28. Some people are still not into us. That makes sense. We haven't really done a lot of press. We haven't put ourselves out there in ways that a lot of people would know we are still around. Unless you tour or record, they don't know you are around.
Mike McCready
#29. Here's what you should say [to an investor]: 'this is what my company does' It's that simple. What you're trying to do is get potential investors to fantasize about how your product or service will make a boatload of money. They can't fantasize if they don't know what you do.
Guy Kawasaki
#30. People hesitate to follow their desires because they don't know how to divide their soul from their spirit.
Rihanna
#31. Father, forgive them; they don't know what they're doing!
Anonymous
#32. No one's banging down my door. People see the way I look, and they don't feel threatened, but they should watch out for me. They don't know there's a steel rod that drives me. I get ticked off, and the rage just gets me going. My motor is anger.
Tim Daly
#33. The Irish ... are full of the fear of the Lord and the joy of living, and they don't know how to combine the two, but they'll sure have a good time trying.
Mercedes McCambridge
#34. The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
Josh Billings
#35. Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don't know each other; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the Freemason's sign, they reveal the initiated to each other.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#36. If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.
David Lloyd George
#37. Lots of Orthodox go to church every Sunday but don't know much about the faith. Yet they know that there is something that they don't know much about.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
#38. I don't know. I love my friends, but yes, I'm discovering that they don't know me very well. It's not their fault, though. I've never let them. I've never really known myself.
Kasie West
#39. Too often have we believed the old lie that says we're bad, we're perverted, we're abominations. But those who spread the lie don't know. They don't know how we love, how we hurt, how we live.
William J. Mann
#40. I just want different parts; I wanna be that guy who people mention and they don't know who you're talking about until you say a few movies they've been in and then people are amazed that it's the same person.
Bobby Cannavale
#41. Dratted women," the colonel muttered, tossing down his napkin and bolting out of his chair. "They don't know how to listen. They don't know how to obey. If the army were made up of them, we'd all be British subjects." Caleb
Linda Lael Miller
#42. Organizations like the CIA and the FBI are still kind of supermen, kind of SS troops: We're blond and the best and everyone else should be incinerated. They don't know right from wrong. That's what makes a satire of these government bureaus really funny.
Mel Brooks
#43. Sometimes I regret that the wonderful children's stories that have been made into movies were - people no longer read 'The Wizard of Oz'; they think they know the story. They don't know anything about all the bits and pieces they had to leave out.
Robin Hobb
#44. The spine is the lifeline. A lot of people should go to a chiropractor but they don't know it.
Jack LaLanne
#45. What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most important thing in my life. They don't know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can't, but I'm getting better.
Brady Anderson
#46. Don't fool yourself that they don't know. You might not admit that the sun exists, but it exists anyway.
Elise Valmorbida
#47. People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.
Michel Foucault
#48. There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they don't know what you're doing. You can keep it for yourself.
J.D. Salinger
#49. Once you've started a film you don't become a wet noodle. You must have that conflictual interface because you don't know, and they don't know. It's through conflict that you come out with something that might be different, better than either of you thought to begin with.
Jack Nicholson
#50. I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.
Phil Rizzuto
#51. Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.
Wayne McGregor
#52. Team leaders have to connect with their team and themselves. If they don't know their team's strengths and weaknesses, they cannot hand off responsibilities to the team. And if they don't know their own strengths and weaknesses, they will not hand off responsibilities to the team.
John C. Maxwell
#53. Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.
Aaron Stanford
#54. People need books, but they don't know they need them. Generally they are not aware that the books they need are in existence. - Roger Mifflin
Christopher Morley
#55. When I'm in the water I feel as though nothing bad has happened. I think about the fish, how they don't know what's going on. Their world is unchanged. Actually it's probably better now to be a tuna or a sardine or a salmon. Less chance of ending up as somebody's lunch.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#56. When I first came to L.A., I worked at the Magic Castle, and it was so much fun. But the best part of magic for me these days is not having to do it for a living. It's being able to pull a trick out when people least expect it, when they don't know that you do magic.
Steve Valentine
#57. Animals are inspirational. They don't know how to lie. They are natural forces.
Charles Bukowski
#58. My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.
Haruki Murakami
#59. And it was then that I realized that families might be the ones who pick us up time and again but strangers can also rescue us - even if they don't know they're doing so.
Martin Pistorius
#60. Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough.
Richard P. Feynman
#61. That's because they don't know,' said Tyburn. 'It's like economics. Everybody's got a theory, and some people make it their religion.
Ben Aaronovitch
#62. They don't know who I was or that I played baseball.
Catfish Hunter
#63. There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out there, but they don't know how to go about it. I feel like there should be way more sexier women in hip-hop and R&B then it is - more originality.
Tyga
#64. I do have friends, but they don't know me, only someone I've created to take my place. Someone sculpted from ice. I keep the melted me bottled up inside. Where no one can touch her, until, unbidden, she comes pouring out.
Ellen Hopkins
#65. One of the big concerns I have is that most of the HR departments in a lot of companies are hiring away from creativity and they don't know it. For instance, they are requiring everybody to have a college degree. The most creative people I know couldn't deal with college.
Nolan Bushnell
#66. That's the problem with this generation; they don't know their history.
Paul Beatty
#67. People occasionally recognise me. But they don't know who I am. I see a lot of bemused looks ... They're trying to figure it out.
Jade Jagger
#68. You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.
Diana Vreeland
#69. They will find the cake and they will gobble it up, because, having no mother, they don't know how dangerous 'tis to eat rich damp cake.
J.M. Barrie
#70. Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really love golf, and we visited them, and she gave me two clubs. Like people think when they don't know who my dad is, they think he's my coach.
Lydia Ko
#71. Don't listen to you customers. They don't know what they want anyway.
Larry Weber
#72. Watch some kids, watch them play. You'll see they're just little adults, only they don't know all the rules and tricks yet.
Graeme Simsion
#73. There will be people who look at you and say 'You're weird' smile at them and say thank you because they don't know how beautifully unique you are
Me
#74. ... and they said: you find a better one! they don't know there is no better one in love.
Hadi Farnoud
#75. I'm flattered by the fact that most people tell me they don't know what my politics are.
Charlie Rose
#76. There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.
Robert W. Service
#77. True leaders are the first to admit that they don't know everything and that they need help.
Bill Byrd
#78. A good leader shares information, even if they don't know the whole story. Without any information, people create their own, which causes fear and paranoia.
Simon Sinek
#79. Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!
Thomas A. Edison
#80. When they smile in your face, but behind you, it ain't well wishes
When they eatin' all the food off your plate and they don't do dishes
When they words and they actions blur and they don't know different
No time for these FABs.
Jojo
#81. So,what do they call you if they don't know your name?"
There's a brief pause before he answers.
"The Wrath of God.
Susan Ee
#82. Grief is a private, internal thing. No one can say their pain is worse than yours because they don't know. So maybe it's not good to compare. Maybe it's better to talk to people who know you.
Anna Maxted
#83. It's amazing how much one person can change the world, even if they don't know they're doing it.
Jenn Marie Thorne
#84. I get a little sick of these New Yorkers who want me to make some psychic thing, like 'The Left-Handed Gun.' They don't know anything about Western history.
Howard Hawks
#85. IT'S NO FUN WATCHING PEOPLE WOUND
THEMSELVES SO THAT THEY CAN HOLE UP,
NURSE THEMSELVES BACK TO HEALTH,
AND REPEAT THE CYCLE.
THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO.
Jenny Holzer
#86. People recognize me, but they don't know where from. Today I was in the elevator and somebody asked me if I worked for his company.
Michael Ian Black
#87. Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another.
Parker Stevenson
#88. Obviously in the close-ups we bring extras around or we do it later, but them running in and the big shots, they don't know. They're just coming out.
Jaume Collet-Serra
#89. Investors should invest on what they know. The biggest mistake is to invest on what they don't know.
Mohamed El-Erian
#90. Rock stars, is there anything they don't know?
Homer
#91. They fight a war and they don't know what for. Isn't that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different color uniform and speaks a different language?
Michael Morpurgo
#92. I've fallen for your eyes, but they don't know me yet
Ed Sheeran
#93. Love has many mysteries, and this first infatuation is also a mystery, even if a minor one - most people who rush into it get engaged or indulge in other foolish pranks, and then it's all over with the twinkling of an eye and they don't know what they have conquered or what they have lost.
Soren Kierkegaard
#94. Folks trying to plan their personal fiscal '15 are at a loss. They can't do a budget because they don't know what their health insurance costs will be.
Hugh Hewitt
#95. People who love us do black magic on us, but they don't know what they do. That is why we must forgive them; they don't know what they do.
Miguel Ruiz
#96. We began to look at "Why is that?" And a large part of that has to do with the fact that when people have a lot of options to choose from they don't know how to tell them apart. They don't know how to keep track of them.
Sheena Iyengar
#97. People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had," she said quietly, staring into the embers. "They don't know what it was like, not being in a camp.
Nevil Shute
#98. You can meet lots of actors who are in their own world and do their own thing, and they have no idea what's going on and they don't know anyone's name around them.
Richard Madden
#99. I'm dying to play a nice guy! No one's willing to cast me. They know I'm all right at bashing people up, but they don't know if I can do the other stuff. And I can.
Ray Winstone
#100. Even in these days of eBay and superencrypted anonymous purchasing over the Internet, the safest way to buy stolen stuff is to meet a total stranger and hand over a wedge of untraceable cash. They don't know you, you don't know them - the only problem is where to meet.
Ben Aaronovitch
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