Top 100 Quotes About What You Know
#1. It seems success takes you away from what you know, [Athenian plane passenger] said, while failure condemns you to it.
Rachel Cusk
#2. Writing's deeper function is to serve as a way to find shapes and names for the world as you have come to know it; to find on paper what you know and feel.
Peter Stillman
#3. Believe only what you know and all of what you know.
John De Ruiter
#4. There is nothing God doesn't know about your life. You may know the past and present, but God also knows the future. Choose today to walk securely - not in what you know, but in what you believe.
David Jeremiah
#5. Knowing what to do is useless without the emotional strength to do what you know.
Keith Raniere
#6. I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.
Terrence McNally
#7. Compromise means to go just a little bit below what you know is right. It's just a little bit, but it's the little foxes that spoil the vine.
Joyce Meyer
#8. Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself.
Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury ... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting.
L.M. Montgomery
#9. Success is taking what you know, and creating the best you that you can be.
Tim Fargo
#10. The constant assertion of masculinity is always the most obvious tell of a fake. You do not constantly assert what you know you have.
Matt Bondurant
#11. If you knew at twenty what you know at thirty-five, what a marvellous life you could have; on the other hand, you might find that you couldn't be bothered to have any life at all.
Hilary Mantel
#12. Don't be proud of what you know, and don't be self-confident if you are learned. Be open to advice from the unlearned as well as from the learned. Art knows no limit, and the artists will never achieve perfection.
Barbara De Angelis
#13. Write what you know and embroider the rest - Sue Cross
Sue Cross
#14. Stick to what you know and always be true to yourself. If you do that, your writing will be true, also.
Ashley Chunell
#15. Beliefs are what you know without choosing to. Just believe.
Skyler White
#16. If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you don't, the result will look like something that isn't there.
Richard Schmid
#18. What you know you know. What you don't know, you don't know. This is knowledge.
Confucius
#19. Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.
Henry David Thoreau
#20. It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You're just not there.
Saul Alinsky
#21. Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, Later I will repent and ask God's forgiveness.
Rumi
#22. What if what you know isn't what people want to hear?
Jodi Picoult
#23. Intelligence is using what you KNOW, in the right way, in the right place, at the right moment and with the right intention.
Mike George
#24. Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.
Confucius
#26. Courage is leaning into the doubts and fears to do what you know is right even when it doesn't feel natural or safe.
Lee Ellis
#27. This is what love feels like. To no longer belong to yourself. To be pulled from what you know into what you feel.
Leisa Rayven
#28. Nothing so clears the vision and lifts up the life, as a decision to move forward in what you know to be entirely the will of the Lord.
John Gibson Paton
#30. Do not concern yourself with what you know or what you do not know. Do not think about the past or the future, merely allow God's hands to write the surprises of the present on each new day.
Paulo Coelho
#31. Hold on there, pal. Why don't you take a deep breath and tell me what you know. And keep in mind most of us prefer sentences over stream-of-consciousness word vomit.
Alex P. Berg
#32. Knowledge imprisons you. You cannot escape it. What you know you cannot unknow. That's why knowledge is dangerous. Learning will redefine your world, irreversibly.
Noam Shpancer
#33. Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core.
Andrew Stanton
#34. Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know ... Head and heart ... You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other.
Nora Roberts
#35. Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.
Howard Nemerov
#36. If you could multiply what you know in your head and your heart, your IQ and EQ, by the power of everyone you've ever e-mailed or could contact by social media and other technology, what would you do?
Erica Dhawan
#37. You can teach what you know, but you can only reproduce what you are.
T.D. Jakes
#38. When all you wanted was to be wanted, you wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now.
Taylor Swift
#39. Wisdom is not about what you know, but how you know it. If knowledge is a measure of the grasp an individual has of a given subject, wisdom is a measure of his grip. Does he hold his ideas lightly or loosely? Will he let go when they show signs of wear or inappropriateness?
Andrew Hargadon
#40. What you know has produced what you have; if you're not happy with what you have, then improve what you know.
Orrin Woodward
#41. Write what you know. Write what you can't forget. Write to give yourself courage and others hope.
Nikki Rosen
#42. There's always things that you know about that nobody else, because everybody's life is different. So you write about what you know. That's number one.
Jackie Collins
#43. Go straight to God, and dump it right at His feet. You go down with it if you have to. Then leave it there and go on and do what you know is right now. That other is done. It doesn't make you who you are. It just teaches you who to be.
Nancy Rue
#44. Some of my friends would lie to girls to get them, or do things that - you know, they would cheat on girls. I was just never in the realm of what, you know, what's instilled to me, you know? Yeah, I mean, my mom's a social worker, for God's sakes.
Seth Rogen
#46. The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.
Joe Haldeman
#47. Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.
Bob Ehrlich
#48. You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.
William Hazlitt
#49. Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although
difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
Brian Tracy
#50. You lose a certain kind of innocence when you experience this type of kindness. You lose your right to be a jaded cynic. You can no longer go back through the looking glass and pretend not to know what you know about kindness. It's a defeat, in a way.
Rob Sheffield
#51. Forget what you've been taught so you can remember what you know.
Alan Cohen
#52. You can only write what you know if you've lived, otherwise, you'll just be writing words.
Joseph Eastwood
#53. Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Matthew Arnold
#54. So all I have is the knowledge that I saw! That I saw without being afraid and without turning away, and that I didn't forgive the unforgivable. Forgiveness is a reflex for when you can't stand what you know. I resisted that reflex. That's my sole, solitary, lonely accomplishment.
Jane Smiley
#55. Be patient. Do the best with what you know. When you know more, adjust the trajectory.
Jen Hatmaker
#56. Intuition is what you know before you think.
John Assaraf
#57. Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds of prey. The only question is, whether in serving our own turn, we can serve yours too; whether in double-lining our own nest, we can put a single living into yours.
Charles Dickens
#58. What you see and feel depends on what you know and what you are looking for.
Debasish Mridha
#59. Play what you know and then play above that
Miles Davis
#60. Withhold no part of the precious truth, but speak what you know and declare what you have seen. Do not allow the toil or darkness or possible unbelief of your friends to dissuade you. Let us rise and march to the place of duty, and there declare what great things God has shown to our soul.
Alistair Begg
#61. You're never confident. You go in fear and trembling every day. It would be awfully nice to think that you know how to write a novel. But what you know is the novel you just wrote. You don't have the slightest notion how to write the one you're going to do next.
Wallace Stegner
#64. Tell me what you know."
"I'm awake and you're not pancakes.
Seanan McGuire
#65. Who you know only gets you in the door; what you know gets you the keys to the house.
Gina Greenlee
#66. The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
Vikram Seth
#67. But at the same time you know that if a time like that spring were to come around again, and even knowing what you know now, you might well end up making a similar choice to the one you'd made then.
Han Kang
#68. Honesty is doing what you know or believe is right. Integrity is doing what is right and truthful.
Roy Bennett
#69. Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.
Joel Chandler Harris
#70. Being always right is knowing what you KNOW, knowing what you DON'T know, knowing what you NEED to know and then defining the relationship between all three of them. That's what always being right is.
Todd Travis
#73. You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.
Gary Oldman
#75. You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of knowledge lies in going on anyway.
Robert Jordan
#76. People praise you for what they suppose is in you; but you must blame your soul for what you know is in it.
Ibn Ata Allah
#77. Don't be the glove in the snow. Fight for what you know is right. Be the coat. You're not lost and alone on this.
Linda Kage
#78. You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.
James Salter
#79. You teach what you know... but impart who you are.
Jack Frost
#80. WHEN YOU'RE TRYING SOMETHING NEW,
YOU'RE TORN BETWEEN
ANTICIPATING A DELIGHTFUL SURPRISE
AND THINKING YOU'RE A FOOL TO
IGNORE WHAT YOU KNOW YOU LIKE.
Jenny Holzer
#81. Paint what you know, especially if it looks like something you shouldn't know.
Andrew Levy
#82. That experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. Because
Donald J. Trump
#84. Once you make a conscious connection between your physical personality (what you know as you here in this body) and the Eternal Non-Physical Consciousness (what is really You), you can then get on with the reason you were born into this physical life experience.
Esther
#85. People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.
Timothy Ferriss
#86. I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.
Kara Swisher
#87. Some people say, 'Write what you know.' My thing is, 'Write what scares you.'
Jennifer McMahon
#88. They say, 'Write what you know.' What I know isn't cheerleader; it has a little bit of teeth to it.
Melissa Marr
#89. Be humbler about what [you] know, more confident about what's possible, and less afraid of things that don't matter.
Tim Urban
#90. Keep back no part of the precious truth, but speak what you know, and testify what you have seen. Let not the toil or darkness, or possible unbelief of your friends, weigh one moment in the scale. Up, and be marching to the place of duty, and there tell what great things God has shown to your soul.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#92. Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.
Henry Winkler
#93. We are all disabled, broken parts, lost individuals, trying to find our way. Truth is what you know, here and happening now. There is only love and love is the bravest character of all.
Jacqueline Cioffa
#94. Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.
Tom Clancy
#95. You don't expect the goat to hatch the hen's eggs. People do what they know very well. Don't expect someone who doesn't know what you know to do it for you. Do it yourself.
Israelmore Ayivor
#96. I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.
Martin Mull
#97. What you do not know is greater
than what you know.
What you do not understand is greater
than what you understand.
What you have not achieved is greater
than what you have achieved.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#98. You don't ever want to know certain things, because what you know belongs to you, and there are certain things you never want to own.
Patricio Pron
#99. Mark Twain: It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble; it's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
Wayne W. Dyer
#100. It's not what you know anymore that counts, it's how fast you learn
Robert Kiyosaki
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