Top 100 Think You Know Quotes
#1. You think you know who you are, and then other people have these other ideas.
Juliana Hatfield
#2. You think you know everything that's happening around you. But you can't always see clearly when your standing right there in the picture.
Amanda Howells
#3. Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things that you think you know are never certain. I know that now. I wish that I didn't, but I do.
Robert Crais
#4. Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven't gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.
Anthony Kiedis
#5. If you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.
Rumer Godden
#6. You think you know yourself so well, but what you end up knowing is the simple things.
Mark Winkler
#7. The face you show the world isn't always your real face," Elle said. "You can look at someone and think you know everything about them ... but you don't. We all have masks on. Or veils.
Tiffany Reisz
#8. Trouble is , he says, you think you know someone - you could swear you knew what they were capable of - and then they go and suprise you. Human nature.
Julie Myerson
#9. I just think, you know, when we talk about a politician, I think a person has to be themselves. Let the voters see the real you.
Joe Manchin
#10. I love Morocco - it's a real challenge to all five senses. You think you know something, and you don't. It's wonderful. It keeps you on your toes that way.
Amy Ryan
#11. But his words fall away. He looks confused. He looks flustered and sorry. Like you do when you run up to someone you think you know and take her arm and she turns around and you were wrong.
Jennifer Donnelly
#12. When you have success, people think you know what you're doing, and you start to agree with them, you think you can conquer the world. But you go from grandiosity to panic.
Janet Fitch
#13. I think, you know, the thing everybody really wants to know anyway is not what the theory of relativity is, but I think what we all really want to know anyways, is whether we're loved or not.
Rich Mullins
#14. The Word of God is the wisdom of God. It makes no difference how educated you are, how many books you've read, or what you think you know in life, or about life; if you don't have the Word in you, you can't function in the wisdom of God.
Chris Oyakhilome
#15. I think, you know, I'm German, and um, probably not very expressive in my emotions.
Tim Heidecker
#16. There's a scientific phenomenon to describe something that happens when an object is in motion. You think you know exactly what path it will take and where it will end up. Then suddenly, for no reason you can see . . . the arc changes. It goes somewhere you would never have expected.
Cassandra Clare
#17. . "You think you know me?"
"Jason," I sigh loudly. "I probably know you better than you know yourself unfortunately.
Rachel Spanswick
#18. And that's the kind of thing people think, you know, that if you sign up to be a singer-songwriter you know how to deal with people setting up hate websites, or people being obsessed with you and crying when you touch them, but you don't, and you just have to deal with.
Jessie J.
#19. This world you think you know? It's hidden ... in shards of reality.
Zechariah Barrett
#20. 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
#21. Miffed, I poked him in the chest. 'You think you know everything?'
His hands caressed my back. 'Not everything, but some things. I knew without a doubt I'd fallen in love when we met. Then I knew I'd do anything to make you feel the same way.
Jeaniene Frost
#22. No one can know truth except the one who obeys truth. You think you know truth. People memorize the Scriptures by the yard, but that is not a guarantee of knowing the truth. Truth is not a text. Truth is in the text, but it takes the text plus the Holy Spirit to bring truth to a human soul.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#23. I ask you to ignore everything you think you know and to listen only to your heart, without doubting anything. Can you do that?
Jessica Park
#24. For whatever it's worth, all of this just proves that she doesn't deserve you. I think you know that, too.
Sarah J. Maas
#25. For the longest time I have had so much belief and confidence in myself, which as an actor you need, because the entertainment industry is incredible competitive, brutal, and unpredictable just when you start to think you know what's going on.
Benjamin Stone
#26. It's all relative, I suppose. You think you know love, you think you know real pain, but you don't. You don't know anything.
Jenny Han
#27. You think you know what you want, but once you have it, the hole you thought it would fill is that much bigger. The want is what exists, not the thing we lust after.
Hugh Howey
#28. It was great fun, to learn anew. You think you know enough, but you don't. You must open up; let it in. be receptive, admit what you don't know, which few are willing to do. Start from square one. Again!
Alex Toth
#29. As mayor, I'm in the frying pan. I'm just sitting here on the griddle now, and I've got to really think, you know, do I want to stay here on the griddle?
Anthony A. Williams
#30. Sometimes I watch the broad comedies coming out of Hollywood and I think, 'You know, sex is a big part of people's lives, but is that really the only thing men are ever concerned about?' People are more complicated than they appear in film or television.
Josh Radnor
#31. True obedience can only happen when you secretly think you know better, and you choose to bow your head. Anything short of that is just agreement, and any ninny-in-waiting can agree.
Philippa Gregory
#32. You think it's okay to deliver dead flowers?" She turns and laughs. "I've had stranger requests." I flinch. Like what? I find the card and remove it from the tiny envelope. HE SAYS HE NEEDS YOU. HE DOESN'T. YOU THINK YOU KNOW HIM. YOU DON'T. I DO. LEAVE HIM.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#33. Don't even try to argue with your doctor because he knows you more than you think you know yourself.
Euginia Herlihy
#34. Let go of what you think you know. Something amazing happens when you let God and trust.
Tammy L. Kubasko
#35. I think, you know, a fellow CEO said to me that the interesting thing about being CEO that's really striking is that you have very few decisions that you need to make, and you need to make them absolutely perfectly.
Marissa Mayer
#36. As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that.
Tiger Woods
#37. Just when you think you know something, it gets turned around and challenged in some way. But those changes are welcome because you end up learning more.
Jennifer Beals
#38. You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan Perlis
#39. You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.
Margaret Mitchell
#40. What is a genius? What is a living legend? What is a megastar? Michael Jackson
that's all. And when you think you know him, he gives you more. I think he is one of the finest people to hit this planet, and, in my estimation, he is the true King of Pop, Rock and Soul.
Elizabeth Taylor
#41. I think you know that when an American stays away from New York too long something happens to him. Perhaps he becomes a little provincial, a little dead and afraid.
Sherwood Anderson
#42. I guess you think you know this story. You don't. The real one's much gorier. The phony one, the one you know Was cooked up years and years ago And made to sound all soft and sappy Just to keep the children happy. -Ronald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes
Cameron Jace
#43. Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know.
Catherine Fisher
#45. The day you think you know, your death has happened - because now there will be no wonder and no joy and no surprise. Now you will live a dead life.
Rajneesh
#46. Black-Scholes works for short-term options, but if it's a long-term option and you think you know something [about the underlying asset], it's insane to use Black-Scholes.
Charlie Munger
#47. If you think you know what I'm doing wrong well you're gonna have to get in line ...
Ani DiFranco
#48. Forget all you know or think you know; Abandon power and enforced decree. Inward, where the deepest rivers flow, Find the currents of eternity ...
Wayland Drew
#49. Sometimes you think you know more than you really do - people, events, things that are true and things that are not. Sometimes you think you know yourself. But then, surprise, it is someone else who shows you what is really there, like the truth a photograph shows.
Patricia MacLachlan
#50. This wasn't strong-willed, fly-by-the-seat-of-her-miniskirt Kate that I'd befriended last year. You think you know a girl- and then she goes and loses her virginity at a Mardi Gras party and goes soft.
Lauren Kate
#51. If you think you know everything; you know nothing. If you think you know nothing; you know something.
Jayce O'Neal
#52. It's a long story, but one you've never heard before. This story is about a place that dwells on the mountain; a place where bad things happen. And you may think you know about the bad things, you may decide you have it all figured out but you don't. Because the truth is worse than monsters or men.
C.K. Walker
#53. I think, you know, for me, whatever I need to slot into to make that music the best it can be or help the artists, or whoever I'm working with, achieve whatever vision they have in their head for a song.
Mark Ronson
#54. 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
#55. It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#56. You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.
C.S. Lewis
#57. What many people do not understand is: It's not about who you think you know, but about who actually knows you. So better start giving today, be it giving everything at your job, or giving out lunch to that man. Start giving, and the world will know your true character!
Akilnathan Logeswaran
#58. You don't have to like an actor to do a scene with him. You don't have to like a director. But it's just better if you do. And I think, you know, you've got to begin that with respect.
Russell Crowe
#59. It's funny how sometimes you don't see the obvious things coming. You think you know what life has in store for you. You think you're prepared. You think you can handle it. And then-boom, like a thunderclap-something comes at you out of nowhere and catches you off guard.
Cynthia Hand
#60. I wake up in the morning and sometimes I just want to wear a T-shirt and blue jeans and now I have to force myself to do that, because I can't care what people think, you know? ...
Hayley Williams
#61. I think, you know, architecture should not just be something that follows up on events but be a leader of events ... by implementing an architectural action, you actually are making a transformation in the social fabric and in the political fabric. Architecture becomes an instigator.
Lebbeus Woods
#62. I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
Quentin Bryce
#63. Always make your opponent think you know more than you really know.
Philip Sheridan
#64. Well-developed characters will ruin your writing plans every time. You may think you know where you're going with a story, but they have other ideas.
Quinn Anderson
#65. But she was aware that the story you think you know is never the real one. She
Lily King
#66. But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose.
J.M. Ledgard
#67. Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.
Jonathan Franzen
#68. If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.
Larry Poons
#69. I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#70. As you get older and you realize you really don't know as much as you think you know, you listen more. Because then you think, now I need to be more receptive to the things I don't know. That's how you learn.
Phil Keoghan
#71. Test everything that can be tested. As soon as you think you know something, that's when you stop questioning it. Understanding kills curiosity. Understanding kills progress.
Josh Hanagarne
#72. Well, I think, you know, the arts are really what - one of the things that make this country strong. We always think it's our economy or our military power, but in fact, I think it's our culture, our civilization, our ideas, our creativity.
Caroline Kennedy
#73. Time is your cathedral. You know the present is only a pretty illusion in the minds of men. And I think you know that nothing has ever passed away, not entirely.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#74. You think you know all there is to know about here immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood.
Neil Gaiman
#75. The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you're doing.
Richard Hamming
#76. Only locks in life are what you think you know, but don't. Accept your ignorance and try something new.
Dennis Vickers
#77. If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
Maggie Smith
#78. I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.
Sue Grafton
#79. Just when you think you know who you are, life has this way of throwing a curveball and landing you back in the town of confusion; population: a vast majority of the human race.
Connor Franta
#80. You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.
Henning Mankell
#81. Try and withhold your judgment, because as soon as you think you know something, you're shutting down.
Cate Shortland
#82. I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights.
Connie Chung
#83. Sometimes you think you know what you want, she said, hugging her children, until you see how much more you can have.
Rachel Simon
#84. You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.
Halle Berry
#85. You can't learn anything new, until you are open enough to forget everything you think you know
James Victore
#86. All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.
Carrie Vaughn
#87. So long as you don't tell people you don't know something, they'll probably think you know it.
Jeff VanderMeer
#88. You make a movie and it's like convincing people to go on an expedition with you. You think you know where it's going to end up, and you're hoping and guessing. But, when people trust you and get involved, based on that trust, it's a really nice feeling to be able to have everything pay off.
David Ayer
#89. I don't think my father noticed that he had daughters. I think, you know, part of the damage of the childhood was, I simply don't think they were acknowledged as human beings at all. Or - you know, one of the reasons I became a cook later on in my life was, I was not allowed to cook an egg.
Terry Gross
#90. I see those picketers, and I think you know, if I weren't a loving, non-violent, spiritual person, I would really go over there and grab those signs and smash them over their heads and shove them up their asses. But ... I'm a loving, spiritual person.
Ellen DeGeneres
#91. I've never really undestood," the unicorn mused as the man picked himself up," what you dream of doing with me, once you've caught me."
The man leaped again, and she slipped away from him like rain. "I don't think you know yourself," she said.
Peter S. Beagle
#92. You think you know someone, but that person always changes, and you keep changing, too. I understood it suddenly, how that's what being alive means. Our own invisible plates shifting inside of our bodies, beginning to align into the people we are going to become.
Ava Dellaira
#93. I think that when we start thought-policing people and idea-policing people, then that's crossing a line. And I think, you know, everybody's so afraid of this imaginary line of thought police that they forget their own personal safety.
Ashton Kutcher
#94. [Wearing padding to make my breasts look larger for a movie] was great, but it also made me think, you know, a lot of women who go out and get implants, what's so insecure about them that they would rather have someone look there than in their eyes?
Lara Flynn Boyle
#95. I think you know by now that I've been called many things by many people. Quitter is not one of them.
Hillary Clinton
#96. What makes people and companies and artistic directors and choreographers interested in working with dancers is the ability to kind of let go of everything you think you know and be a blank canvas.
Misty Copeland
#97. When I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.
Juan Williams
#98. I don't think you know what you want."
"Yes. I do. I want you, and being with you feels a hell of a lot better than being without you. I'm not going to fight it anymore.
Rachel Gibson
#99. You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.
Marianne Wiggins
#100. You already know so much more than you think you know. You are not finished; you are merely ready.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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