Top 100 You Already Know Quotes
#1. The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not ... it's not new.
Eckhart Tolle
#2. If you want to feel secure, do what you already know how to do. If you want to be a true professional and continue to grow ... Go to the cutting edge of your competency, which means a temporary loss of security. So whenever you don't quite know what you're doing, know you're growing.
Madeline Hunter
#3. Fiction books give the reader a chance to step away from their own reality and into the shoes of the characters, and they show you a world that isn't the one you already know. And sometimes the story's not so different from your own, and it lets you get closer to your own feelings.
Shin Towada
#4. I like it when a script shows you something new, and you can learn something through the journey of a film rather than being told things you already know.
Lucy Fry
#5. An epiphany is a visceral understanding of something you already know.
Jen Sincero
#6. I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.
Etgar Keret
#7. There are few more frustrating things in life than being told something that you already know but cannot admit to knowing.
Helen Cresswell
#8. I love when me and my friends don't know how to make something - there's that risk of failure, which should be there. If it's guaranteed not to fail, it's something you already know how to do.
Spike Jonze
#9. Don't do that," he says. "Don't ask me questions you already know the answers to. Twice I've laid myself bare to you and all it's gotten me was a bullet wound and a broken heart. Don't torture me," he says, meeting my eyes again.
"It's a cruel thing to do, even to someone like me.
Tahereh Mafi
#10. You already know so much more than you think you know. You are not finished; you are merely ready.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#11. There is a tale of a man who found on the road a large stone bearing the words, "Under me lies a great truth." The man strained to turn the stone over and finally succeeded. On the bottom was written, "Why do you want a new truth when you do not practice what you already know?
Eknath Easwaran
#13. You're always working at the margin of what you don't understand, that's the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know is condescending, and a waste of your time.
Emmet Gowin
#14. So you see, it doesn't terribly matter if you miss one item of knowledge in a series of similar items because providing you understand the series you already know without knowing that you know.
Christine Brooke-Rose
#15. The size of your faith or the degree of your knowledge is not the issue - it is the integrity you demonstrate toward the faith you do have and the truth you already know.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#16. My interpreter Sayuri is folding a piece of notebook paper. She is at step 21, where the crane's body is inflated. The directions show a tiny puff besides an arrow pointing at the bird. It makes sense if you already know what to do. Otherwise, it's wonderfully surreal: Put a cloud inside a bird.
Mary Roach
#17. ...Tango is not just a dance. It's our human condition. To everyone who loves tango, it's what art is to the artist. A way to connect past and future. But you already know this my dear...
Kapka Kassabova
#18. It's probably my job to tell you life isn't fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I'll tell you that hope is precious, and you're right not to give up.
C.J. Redwine
#19. The best source by far for hiring is people that you already know and people that other employees in the company already know.
Sam Altman
#20. Ever since I was a little child, I refused to see movies of books that I loved. Because you already know what Heidi looks like and she doesn't look like Shirley Temple.
Fran Lebowitz
#21. You can answer your own question. You already know the answer, if you can just gain access to it.
Michael Crichton
#22. When you think about where are you going to find that big love of your life, you seldom think it's someone you already know. You think it's someone you're yet to meet.
Bruce Willis
#23. That economics and finance are often covered as technical subjects, sort of boring subjects, and either you already know a lot about it and you follow it, or you don't know much about it and you don't want to know.
David Plotz
#24. Biggest obstacle to learning is thinking you already know.
Mike Erre
#25. You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat
Frederic Chopin
#26. Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.
Remy De Gourmont
#27. I believe that in your heart you already know something is profoundly wrong. When bartenders are responsible for drunk drivers' acts, and gunmakers are responsible for criminals' acts, and nobody is responsible for O. J. Simpson's acts, something is wrong.
Charlton Heston
#28. I believe in preparation. As you already know we had to deal with many crews, 2 cameras. Also as I said we had to get many different actors because they tried to tamper with the project. I just liked doing the movie how I envisioned it. I wanted it to be my own.
Tommy Wiseau
#29. I figure it this way - if a woman claims she didn't want me to fudge her, then you already know she's a liar. So what the hell's the point of a trial, y'know?
Zach Braff
#30. New languages are not something you can pick up overnight. They take time. Patience. The willingness to change the way you think about what you already know.
Jessica Brody
#31. Clean out your ears, don't listen for what you already know.
Rumi
#32. This is the best possible way to retain important details that you wish to remember in any unified field of knowledge, whether it be the field of economics, science, history, or any other
link them up with related items which you already know or wouldn't mind knowing.
Ralph Alfred Habas
#33. Dear child, I see your eyes - you already know the truth. Whomever you are waiting for ... they're never coming back.
Shannon L. Alder
#34. Poor reading, like poor writing, is imposing what you already know on texts. You should go into reading to discover, not to reaffirm what you know.
Azar Nafisi
#35. You cannot know God until you've stopped telling yourself that you already know God. You cannot hear God until you stop thinking that you've already heard God. I cannot tell you My Truth until you stop telling Me yours.
Neale Donald Walsch
#36. Don't take the high ground and assume you already know what you'll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you'll find there isn't anything you won't do.
Richelle Mead
#37. I work by instinct. You never hear anything new; when you hear advice that makes sense, it's something you already know.
Jerrod Carmichael
#38. Stop spending so much time trying to prove what you already know to people who don't really matter. It just makes you look insecure and lacking self-confidence.
Karen E. Quinones Miller
#39. You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when you already know what you think.
John Bolton
#40. God is your best friend. He gave you this life and He wants you to share it with him." Gabby's voice turned wistful, "You could start by thanking him for your many blessings. Wouldn't you agree, even if you already know, it's still nice to hear thank you?
Greg Sandora
#41. Do you ever get the feeling like you already know the entire contents of the universe somewhere inside of your head, as if you were born with a complete map of this world already grafted onto the folds of your cerebellum and you are just spending your entire life figuring out how to access this map?
Reif Larsen
#43. Everything I can say about what it means to lose, what it means to do without, the inadequate weight of the past, you already know.
Claire Vaye Watkins
#44. You've been here before, you already know how it goes, you chose this, you know, it's supposed to be over
Dessa Darling
#45. Forge your iron; shape it by force,
not into a flower you already know
but into what can also be a flower
if you think it is and it is so.
Joao Cabral De Melo Neto
#46. Life (as you call it) is an opportunity for you to know experientially what you already know conceptually. You need learn nothing to do this. You need merely remember what you already know, and act on it.
Neale Donald Walsch
#47. My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something you already know, it's worth it.
James Scott Bell
#48. What I said was true. My heart is yours to break. As you already know, I'd rather die than see you in pain. In the moment I was hit, when I fell to the floor sure my life was ending, all I could think about was you.
Kiera Cass
#49. Nothing may change in days or in years or all can change in hours and in seconds! Knowing this means that you already know many things!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#50. You already know the end result ... laid off, fired, no retirement, no benefits, no security and certainly no comfort.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#51. The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.
Plato
#52. Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.
Emily Berrington
#53. If you don't step across the threshold of what you already know into the world of challenges, you never truly measure yourself.
Mariel Hemingway
#54. DURING THE FIRST PART of your life, you only become aware of happiness once you have lost it. Then an age comes, a second one, in which you already know, at the moment when you begin to experience true happiness, that you are, at the end of the day, going to lose it.
Michel Houellebecq
#55. You don't have to do this, Dakota. Nothing that man has to say to you is of any consequence. You already know his song.
Ann Simko
#56. When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.
Dalai Lama XIV
#57. The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer.
Hanya Yanagihara
#58. Never use prayer as an excuse to procrastinate doing what you already know is the right thing to do.
Rick Warren
#59. Each repetition pales by degrees because, when you return to what you already know, it can't be experienced for the first time.
Deepak Chopra
#60. Not everybody wants to get out and see the world. Nothing wrong with that. Sometimes you just want to figure out how to fit yourself into the world you already know.
John Darnielle
#61. You won't learn if you think you already know everything.
Robert Kiyosaki
#62. You already know if I'm a senior? You're slacking on your stalking skills.
Colleen Hoover
#63. You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.
Abraham Lincoln
#64. There are people you meet that you get to know, and then there are people you meet that you already know.
Anonymous
#65. The results you are churning out are a direct or indirect reflection of what you allowed into your life. Unlearning what you already know and practice is no easy task, but sometimes it's necessary for the programming or re-programming that must take place for success to be made deliberate.
Archibald Marwizi
#66. The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of.
J. D. McClatchy
#67. If you've written it you know exactly; whoever you're playing if you've written it you already know it. As a matter of fact, you've already made the movie if you wrote it. You've made it in your head.
Billy Bob Thornton
#69. If you have ever opened a can of worms, boxed yourself into a corner, ended up in hot water, or found yourself in a pretty pickle, you already know that life is rarely (if ever) just a bowl of cherries.
Maryrose Wood
#70. I'm sure you already know this, but you need to actually climb into a bath to get clean - not stare at it.
Sarah J. Maas
#71. When you think about a problem over and over in your mind, that's called worry. When you think about God's Word over and over in your mind, that's meditation. If you know how to worry, you already know how to meditate!
Rick Warren
#72. You must remember how to dream what you already know.
Lauren Kate
#73. Stop worrying about what you don't know. Focus instead on what you already know even if they don't add up to much. Because you never know what you can achieve with what you already know until you take actions!
Mark Foo
#74. And what's the use of talking, if you already know that others don't feel what you feel?
Louise Bourgeois
#75. Do not quarrel or restlessly seek for more knowledge, until you have given proper honor to what you already know.
Bryant McGill
#76. I was concussed! My brain was scrambled. Whatever I said, it didn't count.
I'm sorry to hear that. I kind of liked the idea of being gorgeous.
I'm sure you already know that.
It's still nice to know that you think
so.
Kelly Oram
#77. Why do they wait until sixth grade when you already know everything?
Judy Blume
#78. As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.
John Darnielle
#79. If you're going to look at me that way, I might need to warn you about me," he says, taking a step toward me. Instinctively, I retreat. One side of his mouth quirks into a wry grin. "Or maybe you already know.
M. Leighton
#80. Remember, when you talk, you only repeat what you already know; if you listen, you might learn something.
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#81. I'd never hurt you, Emily. Stop fighting me. Stop fighting what you already know
Gail McHugh
#82. The basic formula of life... SURVIVE. EAT. SHIT. FUCK. BUY A HOUSE and DIE. It's all been scripted. But there's no need to see the second act. You already know how the play ends, don't you?
Andrew Armacost
#83. Why do you want a new truth when you do not practice what you already know?
Far better to read a few books and make them your own than to read many books quickly and superficially.
Eknath Easwaran
#84. If you already know what your response will be before you've heard what the other person has said, you are not listening.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#85. An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.
Evan Esar
#86. Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.
Richard Bach
#87. Somebody has to be the pioneer and leave the marks for others to follow ... you've got to have some faith in what you're trying to do. It's easy to have faith as long as it goes along with what you already know. But you've got to have faith in us all the way ...
Tom Wolfe
#89. 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
#90. If you already know the
answer, Ms. Lane, don't waste my time. You just wasted a month of it.
-Barrons
Karen Marie Moning
#91. Sam's hand brushed her shoulder, and she almost jumped out of her skin as he brought his mouth close to her ear and murmured, "You look beautiful. Though I bet you already know that." She most certainly did.
Sarah J. Maas
#92. Your job on Earth, therefore, is not to learn (because you already know), but to remember Who You Are. And to remember who everyone else is.
Neale Donald Walsch
#93. Your questions are false if you already know the answer.
Jose Saramago
#94. you already know the majority of what you need to know to be an incredible parent
Mayim Bialik
#95. Everything you want lies on the other side of learning to trust yourself. Take a chance. Have faith. You already know who you are, what you want, and where you want to go.
Vironika Tugaleva
#96. The way to find your own North Star is not to think or feel your way
forward but to dissolve the thoughts and feeling that make you miserable.
You don't have to learn your destiny
you already know it; you just have to unlearn the thoughts that blind you to what you know.
Martha Beck
#97. The part that kills me is that you already know. I already told you everything!
Stephenie Meyer
#98. Asking a question simply implies that you already know the answer. However, the question that you are asking may simply be an illusion. The beauty of the answer truly blooms, when you ask the right question.
Lionel Suggs
#99. If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.
Jodi Picoult
#100. Let me explain something you already know. I'm from Texas and we understand the nature of a border. From what I've seen, vigilant Texans are being ordered to stand down and allow criminals to pass. Mr. President, prepare to see Texans ignoring those orders.
Tommy Lee Jones
