Top 100 What We Know Quotes
#1. As we transform ourselves into creatures of the screen, we face an existential question: Does our essence still lie in what we know, or are we now content to be defined by what we want? If we don't grapple with that question ourselves, our gadgets will be happy to answer it for us.
Deborah Blum
#2. And what we know, or think we know, about the universe of space and time is changing very quickly.
Fred Saberhagen
#3. EDUCATION TEACHES US HOW TO THINK, INTELLIGENCE HOW TO QUESTION, AND OUR MORALITY WHAT TO DO WITH WHAT WE KNOW. BE WARY THEN OF THE EDUCATED, INTELLIGENT, AND AMORAL PERSON, FOR THEY WILL KNOW ONLY THAT THEY CAN DO A THING, NOT WHETHER THEY SHOULD.
Mark T. Barnes
#4. We need consistency and predictability, and a sense of proper placement. We need these things before we can mold the world into what we know it can be.
Allan Dare Pearce
#7. Ironically the very energy, the very basis of how we know what we know, has been reliant on having an energy source [necessary] to build rockets to go to the moon and Mars, to support airplanes that fly, and satellites to give us our communication.
Sylvia Earle
#9. A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
Augustine Birrell
#11. Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.
Talcott Parsons
#12. Every team in the NFL is hard, but when we play our own division it's a fight. Our goal is to make it to the playoffs and to do that we have to win games within the division. We match up well against this division, it's just a matter of getting on the field and doing what we know we can do.
Giovani Bernard
#13. What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future but it's always based on what we have. Then as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas. You know?
Olga Kurylenko
#14. Nature is what we know / Yet have not art to say / So impotent our wisdom is / To her simplicity.
Emily Dickinson
#15. But sometimes we are not drawn to that which is different from what we know and fear. Sometimes we are drawn to that which is exactly the same.
Laura Schroff
#16. If we were to put into practice what we know ... but that is the point.
Doris Lessing
#17. Satan knows that the nature of humankind is to act out of how we feel rather than what we know. One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth rather than what we feel.
Beth Moore
#18. In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. It is like the quantum world, where the more we understand its formalism, the stranger that world becomes.
Huston Smith
#19. We have a choice: to spend a lot of time fighting for what we know is right, or to just accept what we know is wrong. We must stand up for our rights and for the rights of others, even if most people say we can't win.
Susan Polis Schutz
#20. Much of what we know about mathematics and trade comes from the Arabs. Then came stagnation, and now they're the West's whipping boy. This is a problem that cannot be solved overnight, and certainly not militarily.
Brent Scowcroft
#21. Some know, but to know. Some know, to be known. Some know, to practise what they know. Now, to know, but to know - that is curiosity. To know, to be known - that is vain glory. But to know, to practise what we know - that is gospel duty.
Matthew Mead
#22. We don't become better because we acquire new information. We become better because we acquire better loves. We don't become what we know. Education is a process of love formation. When you go to a school, it should offer you new things to love.
David Brooks
#23. Mike Royce and I have always had success writing what we know. What we know now is that we're middle-aged, neurotic and fat.
Ray Romano
#24. Mobile will probably disrupt much of what we know of web 2.0.
Keith Teare
#25. The willingness to let go of what we know you might even call an expression of faith. Faith: not that things will work out as we hope, but faith, simply, in life and its extraordinary intelligence that never fails to surprise. While belief holds on tightly, faith lets go.
Roger Housden
#26. [Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.
Hermann Bondi
#27. We gauge what we think is possible by what we know from experience, and our acceptance of scientific insights, in particular, is incremental, gained one experience at a time.
Bernd Heinrich
#28. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
E. M. Forster
#29. It doesn't matter how much we know, it matters how clearly others can understand what we know.
Simon Sinek
#31. This is what makes science so hard, and ultimately so fun. Think of the limits of what we know as a great suite of rooms inhabited by vast numbers of incredibly busy, incredibly messy, nearsighted people, all of whom are eccentric recluses.
Alexei Panshin
#32. There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.
Steven Novella
#33. One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that even if the amount of knowledge in the world is increasing, the gap between what we know and what we think we know may be widening.
Nate Silver
#35. Nothing can take away our memories or what we know.
Mel Daniels
#36. By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank.
Alec Waugh
#37. See beyond the vision of your eyes, to believe and trust that there is something more to life - something bigger and greater than where we stand and what we know with our minds.
Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos
#38. You already know enough. So do I. It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and to draw conclusions.
Sven Lindqvist
#40. If only Uncle Monty knew what we know," Violet said, "and Stephano knew that he knew what we know. But Uncle Monty doesn't know what we know, and Stephano knows that he doesn't know what we know."
"I know," Klause said.
"I know you know," Violet said
Lemony Snicket
#42. What we know is everything, it is our limit, of what we can be.
Julian Assange
#43. We can teach what we know, but ultimately, we will reproduce what we are.
Wayne Cordeiro
#44. What we make of people, and what we see in the mirror when we look at ourselves, depends on what we know of the world, what we believe to be possible, what memories we have, and whether our loyalties are to the past, the present or the future.
Theodore Zeldin
#45. quiet pain that comes from not honoring what we know to be true, even if all we know to be true are the questions we are asking.
Mark Nepo
#47. The trick is to state what we know in a recognizable fashion but in a way that is slightly off, in a way that arrests us.
Douglas Wilson
#48. What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.
Ivan Panin
#49. Fighting and writing's deepest layers of beauty lie not only in the physical and mental realms of what we know, but also as an incognizable instinct, a realm we will never fully know but will forever feel.
Cameron Conaway
#50. We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.
Wallace Stegner
#52. God speaks to us through our conscience. This may be a "still small voice" that will not let us go until we do what we know is right ... we must never silence that inner voice - [but] check what we think it is saying against the Scriptures.
Billy Graham
#53. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
John Berger
#54. That we are selfish gives us the opportunity to gain the power so that, in time, we might be selfless. To give back what we have learned. To teach what we know, and shorten the journey for those who will come after us.
Margaret Cho
#55. The motive for metaphor ... is a desire to associate, and finally to identify, the human mind with what goes on outside it, because the only genuine joy you can have is in those rare moments when you feel that although we may know in part, as Paul says, we are also a part of what we know.
Northrop Frye
#56. The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.
Jonathan Maberry
#57. I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling. What we know is we can improve. Chad Pennington, our quarterback, missed the first part of the season, and we struggled. We're looking to next season. We're looking to make a noise now, and I wanna kiss you!
Joe Namath
#58. When people are on the same page, when they agree wholeheartedly, when they see eye to eye, very little learning actually takes place. Insight and learning only occur when what we experience in the moment conflicts, clashes with, or expands our awareness beyond what we know or take for granted.
Jeffrey Russell
#59. The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#60. We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we assume, only in what we KNOW.
Darren Shan
#61. Leavening the flat bread of what we know, with the yeast of what we dream may come to pass.
Clive Barker
#62. Mercy, GOD, mercy!": the prayer is not an attempt to get God to do what he is unwilling otherwise to do, but a reaching out to what we know that he does do, an expressed longing to receive what God is doing in and for us in Jesus Christ. In
Eugene H. Peterson
#63. But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.
Ann Veneman
#64. If our lives are easy, and if all we ever attempt for God is what we know we can handle, how will we ever experience His omnipotence in our lives?
Anne Graham Lotz
#65. Because in life, knowledge is only part of the battle. WITHOUT ACTION, KNOWLEDGE IS OFTEN MEANINGLESS. As Aristotle put it, to be excellent we cannot simply think or feel excellent, we must act excellently. Yet the action required to follow through on what we know is often the hardest part.
Shawn Achor
#66. We are affected by what we know so get the information. Don't be lazy in learning
Jim Rohn
#67. I have seen faith rise 'mountain high' when the truth of God's present love and compassion begins to dawn upon the minds and hearts of the people. It is not what God can do, but what we know He yearns to do, that inspires faith.
F. F. Bosworth
#68. If we judge our lives by what we know or by what we say, we can easily deceive ourselves into thinking that we are something we are not; it is wiser to evaluate ourselves by the amount of truth we actually live. This is very humbling.
Paul Washer
#69. We employ our personality, what we know, think, and believe, in order to interpret the world, making self-understanding a critical act because it establishes the baseline for our philosophical and intellectual approach towards life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#70. I believe we should make use of what we know. We know that the future of the Earth must not be compromised.
George H. W. Bush
#71. Maybe you and I have to learn how to live
with what we saw. With what we know.
Elizabeth Scott
#73. ... there's a vast gap between what we know and what we allow, what objective science affirms and what the laws permit.
Wayne Pacelle
#74. Perhaps there is a simple answer
not an easy answer
but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right.
Ronald Reagan
#75. We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#76. The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.
Criss Jami
#77. At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and manifest that unconsciousness of our true nature.
If we know who and what we are very thoroughly, we will express and manifest that in what we do.
It is all very simple.
Adyashanti
#79. We all know how to pray better than we practice what we know!
Georgia Harkness
#80. There comes a time in our lives when what we know becomes less important than what we love. And that what we love, when all is said and done, might be the most important of all things.
Dan Krzyzkowski
#81. When my heart is better, less shrunken, I will throw her out there to love again, without hesitation, even knowing what we know.
Jennifer Harrison
#82. The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.
Joyce Brothers
#83. It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#84. There's no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as a Latin band. We could never expect to do that. We just keep doing what we do, what we know how to do. We sound like ourselves.
Mike Gordon
#85. There's an all too human tendency to believe that what we know and experience now is the way it will and always should be.
Nick Bilton
#86. Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.
Chuck Palahniuk
#87. I think the truth to living fully is to appreciate what we have, day by day, regardless of what we know might come our way.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#88. Oh happy he who still can hope in our day
to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error!
What we don't know is really what we need,
and what we know is of no use to us whatever!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#89. One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth rather than what we feel. Satan's desire is to modify human behavior to accomplish his unholy purposes.
Beth Moore
#90. So most of what we know now will be disproved or reassessed in the future. That is how science works, not through blind faith, but continual doubt.
Matt Haig
#91. Based on what we know now and can reasonably imagine, there is absolutely no prospect that any human being will ever visit the edge of our own solar system - ever.
Bill Bryson
#92. The best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That's why the truth is so important. Evil abhors those with the ability.
Terry Goodkind
#93. Memory builds itself without any clean or objective logic: a dot here, another dot here, and plenty of dark spaces in between. What we know is always evolving, always subdividing. Remember a memory often enough and you can create a new memory, the memory of remembering.
Anthony Doerr
#94. It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.
Audre Lorde
#95. Writing is drawing the essence of what we know out of the shadows. That is what writing is about. Not what happens there, not what actions are played out there, but the there itself. There, that is writing's location and aim. But how to get there?
Karl Ove Knausgard
#97. Our conduct today is affected by what we know of tomorrow.
David Jeremiah
#98. What we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.
R.D. Laing
#99. Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it.
Thomas Merton
#100. According to Rushdoony, the conditions of the Irish transport were as bad or worse than what we know of slave ships, and the condition of Irish immigrants on arrival was "far worse than that of slaves:
Julie Ingersoll
