The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.. We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.
—Blaise Pascal
He who would know the world must first manufacture it.
—Immanuel Kant
Since we all know how weak people are whose lives are easy it’s clear how essential trials are, yet we complain when we have to endure them.
—Leo Tolstoy
When they think that they know the answers, people are difficult to guide.
—Laozi
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
It’s obvious that we don’t know one millionth of one percent about anything.
—Thomas Edison
How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
—Thomas Jefferson
Accept everything bad that happens to you the way a sick person takes medicine. Medicines are bitter & distasteful, but a sick person takes it happily & is glad it exists. In the same way, be glad when trials & afflictions are sent to you, knowing that they’re of use to your soul
—Leo Tolstoy
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Why is it that, in spite of all the mirrors in the world, no one really knows what he looks like?
—Arthur Schopenhauer
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Sometimes I speak to men and women just as a little girl speaks to her doll. She knows, of course, that the doll does not understand her, but she creates for herself the joy of communication through a pleasant and conscious self-deception.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?
—Arthur Schopenhauer
To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
I’m going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Don’t you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?
—Søren Kierkegaard
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
—Thomas Jefferson
It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.
—Søren Kierkegaard
If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete.
—Sun Tzu
You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak— that I think about it all day long— that I like experimenting— studying— reflecting.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
When I am ….. completely myself, entirely alone… or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these ideas come I know not nor can I force them.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
From one thing, know ten thousand things
—Miyamoto Musashi
If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.
—Miyamoto Musashi
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
To know ten thousand things, know one well.
—Miyamoto Musashi
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
—Aristotle
Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.
—Blaise Pascal
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau