Knowing Too Much Quotes

• If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Knowing, Mind, Littles

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.60, Lulu.com

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• Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.

  Margaret Atwood

  Knowing, People, Too Much

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Sep 11, 2014

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• Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, Ideas

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• Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

  Rick Riordan

  Knowledge, Fate, Knowing

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• ...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.

  Jan Karon

  Knowing, Understanding, Littles

  Jan Karon (2007). “Home to Holly Springs”, p.242, Penguin

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• I'm not a big fan of people knowing too much about me.

  Matthew Lewis

  Knowing, People, Fans

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

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• I like not knowing too much about somebody I'm photographing, because the process also becomes an experience for me to learn about .

  Steven Sebring

  Knowing, Too Much, Process

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When we were growing up and saw a Ray Harryhausen movie, we were interested in how it was done. But thank God we got to go through the magic of seeing it before we knew how it was done. You were able to get this beautiful, pure, visceral response to something without knowing too much about it.

  Tim Burton

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Knowing

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• I totally agree. I hate knowing too much when I'm going to the cinema and watching as a viewer. I don't want to know that the actor has just gone through a divorce. I don't want to know that the person is an alcoholic. It just gets in the way of my pleasure of watching the character on the screen.

  Keira Knightley

  Hate, Character, Divorce

  Interview with David Cronenberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• I'm always going to look and refer to things and remember things differently than perhaps a real or honest viewer can. I'm tainted with knowing too much. But I still very much love it.

  Kevin D. Williamson

  Real, Knowing, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Thinking, Knowing, Too Much

  Statement on November 11, 1947. "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead". Book by Alfred North Whitehead. Chapter 43,, 1954.

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• But you know me-I'm an information magpie, always interested in shiny bits of intel. I've never gotten in trouble because of knowing too much.

  Tim Pratt

  Knowing, Information, Too Much

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• I always worry that knowing too much about a novel or a story early on in writing will close it down - it feels fatalistic in some way.

  Dan Chaon

  Writing, Knowing, Worry

  Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15, 2009.

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