Knowing Everything Quotes

• The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

  Albert Einstein

  Witty, Clever, Creativity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

  Isaac Asimov

  Funny, Hilarious, Sarcastic

  "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners" edited by Geoff Tibballs, (p. 299), 2004.

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• Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.

  Garth Nix

  Mean, Thinking, Needs

  Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #5: Lady Friday”, p.301, Scholastic Inc.

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• If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all this time on this earth?

  Nelly

  Inspirational, Earth, Born

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• Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Teaching, Learning

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 18 Apr. 1775)

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes.

  Neil Gaiman

  Not Knowing, Sometimes, Delirium

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• The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

  Fred Hoyle

  Journey, Men, Air

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• I woke up today knowing everything about everything.

  Nicole Richie

  Knowing, Today

  Twitter post from Nov 20, 2011

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• I am not young enough to know everything.

  James M. Barrie

  Book, Athlete, Knowledge

  The Admirable Crichton (performed 1902, pubd. 1914) act 1

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  Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• I can’t hate people for making judgment on me, or making a decision of liking me or not liking me. All I can do is try to better as a person. And I’m good with knowing everything isn’t always going to be perfect.

  Chris Brown

  Hate, People, Perfect

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• Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery.

  Esther Perel

  Desire, Needs, Mystery

  Twitter post from Dec 30, 2014

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• The scientist … must always be prepared to deal with the unknown. It is an essential part of science that you should be able to describe matters in a way where you can say something without knowing everything.

  Hermann Bondi

  Knowing, Essentials, Matter

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• the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything)

  Toni Morrison

  Feelings, Dry, Littles

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• I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.

  David Copperfield

  Team, Challenges, Magic

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• Be boring, knowing everything. You have to give all that stuff up if you're going to muck about here.

  Neil Gaiman

  Giving, Stuff, Boring

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• It’s a risk I’m willing to take. This happens once in a lifetime. You meet someone and have this crazy reaction … you touch her skin and it’s the best skin you’ve ever felt, and no perfume on earth could be better than her smell, and you know you could never be bored with her because she’s interesting even when she’s doing nothing. Even without knowing everything about her, you get her. You know who she is, and it works for you on every level.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Crazy, Smell, Bored

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• When it is made to appear as though not knowing everything about everyone is an existential crisis, then you feel that bending the rules is okay. Once people hate you for bending those rules, breaking them becomes a matter of survival.

  Edward Snowden

  Hate, People, Survival

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My foster mother always laughed and said it was his reputation for knowing everything that allowed for him to appear infallible: all he had to do was walk through the room and see who looked guiltiest when they saw him. Maybe she was right, but I tried looking innocent the next time, and it didn't work.

  Patricia Briggs

  Mother, Rooms, Next

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• There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always be waiting at a particular finish line: journalists with their cameras, impatient crowds eager to call the race, astounded to see the scientists approach, pass the mark, and keep running. It's a common misunderstanding, he said. They conclude there was no race. As long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Running, Race, Feet

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• I mean I love movement. I mean the energy that comes from the way I move. We get energy from how we move. I mean the control I get from knowing everything about how my body feels and how it is working.

  Conor McGregor

  Moving, Mean, Energy

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I am no longer interested in seeing and knowing everything all at once in my work. Technically I select the area of focus and if it's possible I try to make an amalgamation of every shape and color in the picture so that it acquires a circular movement: from representation to abstraction, from life to death, and vice-versa.

  Olivo Barbieri

  Color, Focus, Trying

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• Parents can learn that parental authority doesn't depend on knowing everything. The more you pretend, the more risk that it'll be traumatic and damaging to the kids and their relationship with you when they find out the truth.

  Seymour Papert

  Kids, Parent, Risk

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• When you're young and have a dream, it's pretty simplistic. You don't think about or have any way of knowing everything it can be, and anticipate that.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Dream, Thinking, Way

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