To know everything is to know nothing, by Confucius

To know everything is to know nothing,
by Confucius

To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius

They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius

The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.
- Confucius

Choose a job you love,
and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius

Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius

If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

Never impose on others what
you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius (Ancient Chinese)

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

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)

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

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

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The most difficult thing in the world
is to know how to do a thing
and to watch somebody else doing it wrong,
without comment.
- Theodore. H. White

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

There are four stages in a marriage.
First there's the affair,
then the marriage,
then children
and finally the fourth stage,
without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
- Norman Mailer

I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner

We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon

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

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure,
till you know there is no hook beneath it.
- Thomas Jefferson

You know your god is man-made when he
hates all the same people you do.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

You wanna know the meaning of life?
Fugedaboudit - It ain't happnin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I know that God made the whole world in 4004 BC.
I know because my preacher told me. He's a good man.
He's even saving up all the money we give him
to go to bible college someday.
- Anonymous Humor

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

I don't know, I don't care,
and it doesn't make any difference!
- Albert Einstein

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because
he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong
only because he has remained silent.
- Winston Churchill

I refuse to answer that question
on the grounds that I don't know the answer
- Douglas Adams

Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A person is smart. People are dumb,
panicky dangerous animals and you know it.
Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew
the Earth was the center of the universe.
Five hundred years ago,
everybody knew the Earth was flat,
and fifteen minutes ago,
you knew that humans were alone on this planet.
Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.
- the movie Men in Black

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink.
I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right.
We're more popular than Jesus now;
I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
- John Lennon

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

You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie

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

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:
it is those who know little, and not those who know much,
who so positively assert that this or that problem
will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin

One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu

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To know everything is to know nothing,by Confucius

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To know everything is to know nothing,
by Confucius