I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists.
And to know that the sun is there – that is living.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing
—Socrates
I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind.
—Seneca
It is of course better to know useless things than to know nothing.
—Seneca
Life is long if you know how to use it.
—Seneca
“Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.”
—Jennifer Lopez
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
—Socrates
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
—Socrates
By the grace of God, know thyself. Know and feel that thou wast shapen in wickedness, and in sin did thy mother conceive thee; and that thou thyself hast been heaping sin upon sin, ever since thou couldst discern good from evil.
—John Wesley
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
—Plato
I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.
—Plato
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
—Plato
My friend…care for your psyche…know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves
—Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
—Socrates
A man should enquire about that which he does not know.
—Socrates
Know thyself.
—Socrates
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
—Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
—Socrates
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
—Socrates
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
—Immanuel Kant
What can I know?
What ought I to do?
What can I hope?
—Immanuel Kant
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say
—René Descartes
All men by nature desire to know.
—Aristotle
Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.
—Blaise Pascal
I have many problems in my life. But my lips don’t know that. They just keep smiling.
—Charlie Chaplin
O deeps unfathomed as the sea,
O heights that reach beyond the high,
O Love that lavished all on me,
I know Thee now, I know Thee nigh.
O Love that is not here or there,
But like Thine own eternity
Is here, is there, is everywhere,
I yield, I love, I worship Thee.
—Amy Carmichael
But do not settle down into an attitude of It will never be different. It will be different if only, in earnest, we follow on to know the Lord (Hos. 6:3).
—Amy Carmichael