Top 100 Think They Know Quotes
#1. There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.
Samuel Butler
#2. There's fish in here that I've read about that are so see-through that they're invisible. So I don't even think they know they exist.
Karl Pilkington
#3. Many people one meets in life somehow think they know you simply because they're hanging out at the same counter-but they really don't know a thing about you.
William Eggleston
#4. Those who think they 'know' from the beginning will never in fact
come to know anything.
Thomas Merton
#5. People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.
Cormac McCarthy
#6. I love the French very much, and I think they know that. I've been adopted here. They treat me as one of their own.
Jane Birkin
#7. When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing ... And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know ...
Gaston Bachelard
#8. There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.
Jesse Ventura
#9. They think they know the book by its cover, but the book knows what it is. Now he knew better; if the book never opens up and comes out, it can be warped to fit the image others see.
... No, a book wasn't invulnerable to the appearance of its cover, not by any means.
Ken Kesey
#10. I think some people's comedy IQ's aren't as high as other people's, so they don't really know what's going on. Or they think they know what's going on, but they don't really.
Judah Friedlander
#11. I am single for two reasons. First, I don't date girls who watch Real World because they already think they know me. Second, a lot of girls look at me as the slutty seven.
Steven Hill
#12. People who try to boss themselves always want (however kindly) to boss other people. They always think they know best and are so stern and resolute about it they are not very open to new and better ideas.
Brenda Ueland
#13. If we cannot fully understand the acts of other people, until we know what they think they know, then in order to do justice we have to appraise not only the information which has been at their disposal, but the minds though which they have filtered it.
Walter Lippmann
#14. People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.
Mick Jagger
#15. I not only think that they (U.S. leaders) are misguided, but I think they know exactly what they are doing and I think that they are men who are possessed of evil.
Harry Belafonte
#16. There have always been people like you, Nicholas Flamel. People who think they know what's best, who decide what people should see and read and listen to, who ultimately try to shape how the rest of the world think and acts. I've spent my entire life fighting the likes of you.
Michael Scott
#17. People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.
Elliott Smith
#18. Those who think they know it ALL don't know what they are missing!
Tanya Masse
#19. Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.
Larry Wall
#20. People think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.
Jodi Picoult
#21. It's amazing, really, the things two people think they know about each other.
Lauren Fox
#22. People who think they know usually stopped thinking long ago.
Jennifer James
#23. I think it's keeping a surprise element, so that the audience never gets ahead of you. I like to pull the rug out from audiences, I don't like for them to think they know what's happening next.
Jason Graae
#24. Many people look at me and think they know me but they don't at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#25. Those who think they know something do not yet know as they ought to know.
Anonymous
#27. Only the young think they know anything about wisdom.
Nora Roberts
#28. Most fear what they dont know and think they know everything
Ashlee Roche'
#29. I can't control what people think. They know who I am.
Nas
#30. Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.
John Irving
#31. Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.
Rupert Sheldrake
#32. I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up who you think you are, even who you had prided yourself on being. When all those around you say they simply don't recognize you any longer, that's the real compliment.
Jane Smiley
#33. People tend to think they know you when you come into their televisions every week. They think you are different than who you are. Don't believe everything you hear.
Kaley Cuoco
#34. Do you believe God's whole world runs by the laws of the few sciences we have been able to discover? Oh, no, Christine, there is more. But people are satisfied. They know so much, they think they know all. And that makes it easy for Nosferatu. That makes it easy for all the devils.
Lincoln Maazel
#35. People think that they think things, and they also think that they know things. They could usefully give some attention to the question of whether they know what they think and know what they think they know.
Idries Shah
#36. I think it's so strange that certain people think they know you because you've been in a film. It's very flattering, but it's also very scary.
Jaye Davidson
#37. Those people who think they know the Gospel, and it doesn't have any meaning for them, they're the people we have to find a way to touch, to invite once again to the embrace of Christ.
Donald Wuerl
#38. People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.
Pearl S. Buck
#39. Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like ... you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.
Anne Sexton
#40. The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.
Rachel Zoe
#41. Most people think they KNOW the answer. I am willing to ADMIT I don't even know the question.
Arsenio Hall
#42. Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.
Mark Epstein
#43. Young people think they know it all, but a lot of old salts around know they don't.
Richard Jackson
#44. I think I'm at a place where I haven't really been encountered by anyone overtly strange. But people think they know me.
Warren Kole
#45. 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
#46. I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'
Harry Lloyd
#47. How to be happy: Ignore people who think they know more about you than you do.
John Edward
#48. It's awkward going to parties with people you don't know, especially when they think they know you.
Nicholas Hoult
#49. People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me.
Nathan Lane
#50. The public," he said, "bless them. It's the same in tailoring: they always think they know more about your job than you do, and then you get the blame when it ends up looking a mess." He
K.J. Parker
#52. People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable of. I thrive off of that.
T.I.
#53. In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.
Ray Bradbury
#54. I did some things I regret, and I know there are people who think they know me. I've heard the things they say, and some of them are hurtful.
Lamar Odom
#55. They are uncomfortable talking about sex because they don't want people to think they know about it.
Sue Johanson
#57. I've never gotten a letter where I thought I knew the person. But I have heard from people who think they know the letter writer.
Emily Yoffe
#58. I've never had a celebrity crush! I don't believe in those, really. I feel like you have to get to know the person before you start to feel anything like that. People always think they know celebrities, but how can you when you've never met them?
David Archuleta
#59. Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's.
Milan Kundera
#60. People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.
Colum McCann
#61. I hate record labels. They think they know everything. I want to hear them try to sing it.
Jessica Simpson
#62. It's time to stop focusing on what others think of you. They think they know you, but don't. They're stuck in the figment of their imagination.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#63. W: Nobody's so gullible as scientists. All the phony mediums say so. Can't quite see why.
J: Oh, yes, it would be so. They think they know, you see. That's always dangerous.
~Wharton; Jessop
Agatha Christie
#64. You're so connected to people and they all know how to get to you, and everyone knows who you are, so explicitly. They think they know you. It's like, 'You really think you know me? I don't know me! How do you know I'm not different around someone else?
Kristen Stewart
#65. I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.
Billy Graham
#66. It's the transformation that drives me. I want to do it all and never want to be boxed into something as a particular type or style. I never want people to think they know me. I hope to build a repertoire that one can look at and say, from to role to role, 'Was that Brian Tee?'
Brian Tee
#67. Easy to let someone think they know you, long as you become who they think you are.
Lindsay Hunter
#68. One of the things that happens to careers out here is that people destroy themselves because they begin to think they're wonderful. They begin to think they know what they're doing, and the minute that happens, it's over.
William Goldman
#69. Those who think they know everything will learn nothing.
Roger McDonald
#70. Users think they know what they want, but you get the horseless carriage effect where you're getting asked for a faster horse.
Emmett Shear
#71. Some are interested in the mysterious, but lose interest once they think they know you.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#72. People who think they know everything are annoying to those of us who do.
Jill Shalvis
#73. It is better to be loved than admired. It is better to be truly known and seen and taken care of by a small tribe than adored by strangers who think they know you in a meaningful way.
Shauna Niequist
#74. I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don't think they know what they're doing. When you see who wins those things-or who doesn't win them-you can see how meaningless this Oscar thing is.
Woody Allen
#75. Each of us here has a story, but it's not necessarily the one people think they know.
Heather Lyons
#76. When you're a celebrity, people think they know you, but they don't have a clue.
Willie Aames
#77. Well, man, you know what they say.
No, I don't. I don't know what they say.
I don't even know who they are.
Who is this they?
They seem pretty smug.
They seem to think they know shit.
Fuck them.
Bo Burnham
#78. If a context and a goal is defined I could say if it's good or bad. But overall I don't view things as good or bad. So I'm like a robot or computer in that sense. So maybe that's why people don't think they know me when they read my writing.
Tao Lin
#79. so many people who think they know only know what they don't know, as time passes by, they may get to know what they don't know and then they will know
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#80. Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance in coercing their fellow man. Or as Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek said, "in government, the scum rises to the top".
Walter E. Williams
#81. When will we address the fact that rich, white people think they know what's in the best interest of children of African-Americans and Latinos - no matter what the parent's income or education level.
Karen Lewis
#82. All these fine Christian-type people that seem to think they know what God wants for all of us, that's certainly more of a sin then anything they would claim about us. To judge people is one of the greatest sins.
Dolly Parton
#83. They're not going anywhere, they're escaping. And I don't think they know what it is that they want to escape.
Ayn Rand
#84. My hope is that 'Beyond the Heavens' will encourage people to explore faith, open their mind and go beyond what they think they know. That is what my mother encouraged me to do. I hope to encourage others to do the same through this story.
Corbin Bernsen
#85. People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb calls 'Black Swans' - are inevitable. Some are likely to be desperately unpleasant too
Martin Wolf
#86. People see the 'Lil' Wayne' persona and think they know who he really is. My son's father is an intelligent, loving and lovable person who will always be a dear friend. That is all.
Lauren London
#87. People think they know all there is to know about you, but the best bits of you are - have always been - heroic in really quiet ways.
Jack Thorne
#88. There's a lot of time when skaters think they know everything because they've seen videos of you, and seen you on TV or the internet, and there's ways of throwing jabs and being inconsiderate and not having your manners.
Mike Vallely
#89. Any time someone tries to tell you that metadata is 'meaningless, don't worry, it's just who you call, it's just phone records, it's not a big deal' - realize we kill people based on metadata. So they must be pretty darn certain that they think they know something based on metadata.
Rand Paul
#90. In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.
Guillermo Del Toro
#91. You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#92. A lot of highly-educated people have been told what to think, therefore, they think they know it all. The other segment of the population has to figure out how to think, therefore they question everything.
Jewel E. Ann
#93. If there is a new fascism, it won't come from skinheads and punks; it will come from people who eat granola and think they know how the world should be.
Brian Eno
#94. Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Isaac Asimov
#95. We don't learn anything there [school]. The difference between schoolteachers and philosophers us that school-teachers think they know a lot of stuff that they try to force down our throats. Philosophers try to figure things out together with the pupils
Jostein Gaarder
#96. When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
Kate Moss
#97. One moment. One picture. One glimpse - that's all it takes to make someone think they know the truth.
Abigail Haas
#98. For all the secret societies lunatics out there who think they know anything, why don't you chill..We're ALL guests on Earth, not Management.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#99. He is also wary of people who think they know the path.
Paulo Coelho
#100. Why do men think they know how to cook outside when they haven't the smallest idea how to go about it indoors?
Terry Wogan
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