The kinder and more rational a person is, the more he recognizes himself in others. A stupid, unkind person thinks that all other people are alien to him. A wise and kind person knows that the most valuable thing within him is also within every other person.
—Leo Tolstoy
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science
—Charles Darwin
And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.
—Charles Dickens
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
—Thomas Jefferson
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
My friend, the truth is always implausible, did you know that?
To make the truth more plausible, it’s absolutely necessary to mix a bit of falsehood with it.
People have always done so.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
I know CHRIST is all in all. Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till GOD worketh in him to will and to do after his good pleasure.
—George Whitefield
To write a love letter, you have to start, without knowing, what you want to say, and end, without knowing what you have said.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
—Ernest Hemingway
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.
—Charles Dickens
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
—William Shakespeare
Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
—Aldous Huxley
Knowledge is the knowing that we can not know.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
When they know that they don’t know, people can find their own way.
—Laozi
I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
—Vincent Van Gogh
The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth
—Jean-Paul Sartre
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
—Immanuel Kant
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
—Henry Ford
I am not young enough to know everything.
—Oscar Wilde
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
—Socrates
If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
—Sun Tzu
Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.
—Heraclitus
We don’t and can’t know what happiness for all people consists of, but we know full well that gaining this common happiness is possible only through the eternal law of kindness, revealed through human wisdom and residing in the hearts of all people.
—Leo Tolstoy
Know thy self, know thy enemy.
A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
—Sun Tzu
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
—Ernest Hemingway
As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.
—Carl Jung
Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
—Socrates
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
—Blaise Pascal
One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.
—Sun Tzu