Top 100 Worth Knowing Quotes
#1. Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.
Woody Allen
#2. But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--"
~Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury
#3. Any man who doesn't believe in carrying weapons on a first date is not a man worth knowing.
Seanan McGuire
#4. Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.
Kurt Vonnegut
#5. Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.
Kato Lomb
#6. Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#7. When we're young, we think we are the only species worth knowing. But the more I come to know people, the better I like ravens.
Louise Erdrich
#8. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
Alan Perlis
#9. You take that leap of faith. You have to be willing to follow, blindly, wherever it takes you. If you know where you're going beforehand, you're not going to end up with anything worth knowing.
Sam Messer
#10. I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.
Elif Shafak
#11. anything that was ever worth knowing began with once upon a time
Sarah Perry
#12. Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.
Oscar Wilde
#13. A lady decidedly. Fast? perhaps. Original? undoubtedly. Worth knowing? rather.
George Egerton
#14. Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.
Confucius
#15. If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.
Alexander Smith
#16. Man was made to lead with his chin; he is worth knowing only with his guard down, his head up and his heart rampant on his sleeve.
Robert Farrar Capon
#17. We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.
Jane Austen
#18. Much of what other people know isn't worth knowing.
Anonymous
#19. Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
H.L. Mencken
#20. As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.
Bill Watterson
#21. Many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.
Anna Letitia Barbauld
#22. No one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed
William Landay
#23. One worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed - but after all, we were children.
William Landay
#24. In our hearts those of us who know anything worth knowing know that in March a new year begins, and if we plan any new leaves, it will be when the rest of Nature is planning them too.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#25. You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am ... Carry on.
Charles M. Schulz
#26. Everyone I've ever met who was worth knowing was a bit different at school. You just need to find your people'
'Find my people?'
'Your tribe
Jojo Moyes
#27. The mind rejects the very things worth knowing.
Hugh Howey
#28. MGM bores me when I see them, but I don't see them much. They have been a help in getting me introductions to morticians, who are the only people worth knowing.
Evelyn Waugh
#29. No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least
inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the
walls of memory.
Algernon Blackwood
#30. In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
#31. Thank you seems like too little ... or maybe too much, since he couldn't possibly understand how much I needed to hear what he just said. How much I needed to know that even without my ability, I am someone worth knowing. That every little and ridiculous quality I exhibit makes me who I am.
Kasie West
#32. There aren't any 'relative' (worldly) things that is worth inviting. So what is worth inviting? The 'place' where we have to go is worth knowing.
Dada Bhagwan
#33. Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind.
Woody Allen
#34. Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.
Paul Ryan
#35. Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.
Plato
#36. Life is a chain of choices. Making the correct one is never easy."
"That's for sure," agreed Rocky.
"But if we didn't make difficult choices, right or wrong," said Mr. Veraldi, "we wouldn't learn anything worth knowing." Rocky Ryan and his viola teacher, Mr. Veraldi, in Bully at Ambush Corner.
Karen Mueller Coombs
#37. I liked the way Walter Cronkite looked, with his black glasses and his voice that knew everything worth knowing. Here was a man who was not against books, that was plain. Take everything T. Ray was not, shape it into a person, and you would get Walter Cronkite.
Sue Monk Kidd
#38. I have drunk of the wine of life at last, I have known the thing best worth knowing, I have been warmed through and through, never to grow quite cold again till the end.
Edith Wharton
#39. Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and Derek Jarman's diaries when I was twenty.
Ruadhan J. McElroy
#40. It's worth knowing who's going to whisper your name when everyone else is screaming.
Gregory Sherl
#41. A girl with plenty to do is sure to draw the interest of a man who's worth knowing. Be sure to get a hobby girls.
Barbara Jean Coast
#42. Nothing worth knowing can ever be taught in a classroom.
Chip Kidd
#43. I'm beginning to feel that I've discovered something worth knowing. There's a way out of places you want to leave, but can't. Fainting is like stepping sideways, out of your own body, out of time or into another time. When you wake up it's later. Time has gone on without you.
Margaret Atwood
#44. Because some information is better than no information. Life does not give you big, simple answers, Caitlyn. It demands patience, focus, and an open, intelligent mind to gather the pieces of a puzzle and fit them together into a coherent whole. Nothing worth knowing is ever easily learned.
Lisa Cach
#45. News is something worth knowing that you didn't know already. (by an "earnest young woman" in his journalism class)
David Brinkley
#46. She is, like anyone worth knowing, many things at once.
Susan Juby
#47. Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.
Sonya Hartnett
#49. One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing
H.L. Mencken
#50. So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is.
H.L. Mencken
#51. When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.
Criss Jami
#52. Sometimes I talk to people. A lot of the time, though, it's just a letdown. There aren't many people out there worth knowing.
Haruki Murakami
#53. The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living
Jules Henri Poincare
#54. Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.
Confucius
#55. When I started working on women's history about thirty years ago, the field did not exist. People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing.
Gerda Lerner
#57. We know everything we knew that was worth knowing, that's a crucial distinction.
Orson Scott Card
#59. His face looked shrewd and wise, as if he knew many things, many of them not worth knowing.
E.B. White
#60. Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
Alexander Pope
#62. Anyone who doesn't belive in Faeries, isn't worth knowing.
Tori Amos
#63. The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
Oscar Wilde
#64. I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.
Hunter S. Thompson
#65. A friend worth knowing tolerates your flaws while a friend worth keeping loves you in spite of them.
K.E. Garvey
#66. I do not pretend to aught worth knowing, I do not pretend I could be a teacher To help or convert a fellow-creature. Then, too, I've neither lands nor gold, Nor the world's least pomp or honor hold - No dog would endure such a curst existence!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#67. I'm not the same person I was. I'm fucked up." I give her a sideways glance. "I am," she says. "You haven't even scratched the surface."
"I find that most people worth knowing are fucked up in some way or another.
Jonathan Tropper
#68. It is perhaps too much the case with the multitude in every nation, that as they know little beyond themselves, and their own affairs, so out of this narrow sphere of knowledge, they think nothing worth knowing.
James Harris
#69. Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.
Karen Marie Moning
#70. Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
Bertrand Russell
#71. The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.
Andrew Sullivan
#72. I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.
Tori Amos
#73. The River ... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we've had together!
Kenneth Grahame
#75. It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing.
Kenneth Grahame
#76. All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.
Robin Sloan
#77. Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them. That's challenging, but then the piece is pure discovery.
Susan Orlean
#78. And you really live by the river? What a jolly life!" "By it and with it and on it and in it," said the Rat. . . . "It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing." - KENNETH GRAHAME, The Wind in the Willows
Kevin Fedarko
#79. It's worth knowing more about the complicated environmental and genetic factors that could explain why traumatic brain injuries lead to long-term disabilities in some people and not in others.
Anne Wojcicki
#80. Anything that provides you with an edge over others is worth knowing.
Steve Cohen
#81. We were small and thought we knew nothing Worth knowing. We thought words travelled the wires In the shiny pouches of raindrops, Each one seeded full with the light Of the sky, the gleam of the lines, and ourselves So infinitesimally scaled We could stream through the eye of a needle.
Seamus Heaney
#82. That was when I found out that the best way in the world to make yourself feel better when you have hit bottom is to try to get somebody else to feel better. There are certain things in life that are truly worth knowing, and that is one of the big ones.
Gene Wolfe
#83. Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#84. The rulers of the earth are all worth knowing; they suggest moral reflections: and the respect that one naturally has for God's vice-regents here on earth is greatly increased by acquaintance with them.
Lord Chesterfield
#85. Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
Jane Austen
#87. People will not refrain from criticizing. But one should not keep on criticizing. The world is such that it will run smoothly without any criticism. This world is not worth interfering in. It is just worth 'Knowing'.
Dada Bhagwan
#88. Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If you can know everything about anything, it is not worth knowing.
Robertson Davies
#89. He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.
Michael Morpurgo
#90. By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.
Don Marquis
#91. Something lay in the shadow at the foot of the ridge, as stiff as the stick of the fallen rocket; and the man who knew too much knew what is worth knowing.
G.K. Chesterton
#92. Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.
Robin Hobb
#93. It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.
Henry David Thoreau
#94. I now know all the people worth knowing in America and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
Margaret Fuller
#95. The knowledge of truth is the only true knowledge worth knowing.
Daniel Marques
#96. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
#97. No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too.
Nas
#98. the safest place to keep your secrets is to keep them in your mind with a locked tongue
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#99. I had never before considered leaving my religion, my family, my customs, and my beliefs behind. It was all that I had ever known. Would it be worth it to give it all up? I had no way of knowing. It was frightening even to contemplate a life beyond
Carolyn Jessop
#100. Learn to be assertive without anger attached to it.
Nikki Rowe
