Knowing Everything Quotes - Page 2

• I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.

  Anne Enright

  Character, Not Knowing, Rooms

  "Anne Enright: 'I was always on the side. Like a salad'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Knowledge, Cedars, Half

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• I happened to go to a school when I was a kid and that's all we did, pursue our own interests. It was kind of structured so you ended up knowing everything you were supposed to know, arithmetic, Latin, whatever it was. But almost always it was under your own initiative.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, School, Kids

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn't matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.

  Laura Riding

  Children, Years, Long

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• I resented my mother for guessing my innermost secrets. She was like God, everywhere at once knowing everything.

  Linda Hogan

  Mother, Secret, Guessing

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