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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong

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It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)

If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)

Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain

Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho

I don't know if we each have a destiny,
or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze.
But I, I think maybe it's both.
- the movie Forrest Gump

People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln

Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either
- Golda Meir

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe

Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)

Life's a game, all you have to do is know how to play it.
- Anonymous

Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie

The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould

We humans feel an instinctive need to know
what is coming next - what we can count upon.
We fear change - even the most positive change.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Assumptions are beliefs that don't know they are beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is,
he's stuck with so many bad actors
who don't know how to play funny.
- Garrison Keillor

One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin

There are certain pursuits which,
if not wholly poetic and true,
do at least suggest a nobler and finer
relation to nature than we know.
The keeping of bees, for instance.
- Henry David Thoreau

You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure;
Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
- John Lennon

You know, it takes two to get one in trouble.
- the movie She Done Him Wrong (1933)

Half the people you know are below average.
- Anonymous

Anxiety is love's greatest killer.
It makes one feel as you might
when a drowning man holds unto you.
You want to save him, but you know
he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anais Nin

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world.
I know because I've done it thousands of times.
- Mark Twain

Repressed anger still is anger, it just isn't expressed.
If you truly have no anger, you are blessed and joyful.
If you have repressed anger, know that you have anger,
you just haven't expressed that anger.
Go ahead, express your anger briefly,
pound pillows, scream, curse.
Then take a deep breath, and get over it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You know what? Maybe there's a good reason
donkeys shouldn't talk.
- the movie Shrek (2001)

A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry

Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I feel the need to express something,
but I don't know what it is I want to express.
- the movie Interiors

Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson

A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep
because reality is finally better than your dreams.
- Dr. Seuss

A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu

The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain

There are three hundred and sixty-four days
when you might get un-birthday presents,
and only one for birthday presents, you know.
- Lewis Carroll

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns

I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby

"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know."
It is "I can't know."
"I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain."
- Wener Karl Heisenberg

I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer

Yeah I called her up. She gave me a bunch of ...
about me not listening to her, or something.
I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention.
- the movie Dumb & Dumber (1994)

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)

Each of us is burdened by an unlimited number of
expectations (demands) that we hold for the actions of others.
We "know" that there is a right way to do things,
and are often outraged when our expectations are not met.
Usually, we are unaware that we merely
have a strong opinion and point-of-view,
and are sure that we know how everything is supposed to be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca

I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

If you know what to do to reach your goal,
it's not a big enough goal.
- Bob Proctor

We tell lies when we are afraid...
afraid of what we don't know,
afraid of what others will think,
afraid of what will be found out about us.
But every time we tell a lie,
the thing that we fear grows stronger.
- Williams Tad

If you ask me anything I don't know,
I'm not going to answer.
- Yogi Berra

If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra

He early on let her know who is the boss.
He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss."
- Anonymous humor

I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It hurts to love someone
and not be loved in return,
but what is more painful is to love
someone and never find the courage
to let that person know how you feel.
- Anonymous

When I see your smile,
and I know it's not for me,
that's when I'll miss you.
- Anonymous

Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius

The more you see the less you know.
- Bono

When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.
- Benjamin Franklin

"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius

Fear of the unknown is
the greatest fear of humankind,
and death the greatest unknown.
Acknowledging these doubts and the fears
is a powerful beginning.
It is liberating to say,
"Yes, I don't know, and yes, I am afraid."
Beyond that, the path to happiness
lies in living in the moment -
enjoying what you are doing today.
You don't need a reason to be happy,
just a choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To manage your mind,
know that there is nothing,
and then relinquish all attachment to nothingness.
- Lao Tzu

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