Know - Quotes
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Can we actually know the universe? My God, it`s hard enough finding your way around in Chinatown.
Once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is.
When you know that something's going to happen, you'll start trying to see signs of its approach in just about everything. Always try to remember that most of the things that happen in this world aren't signs.
Protect me from knowing what I don`t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don`t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.
We cannot define anything precisely! If we attempt to, we get into that paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers, who sit opposite each other, one saying to the other "You don't know what you are talking about!" The second one says "What do you mean by know? What do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you?", and so on.
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere." I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part - perhaps my stuff was belched from some forgotten star, as one is belching there. Or see them with the greater eye of Palomar, rushing all apart from some common starting point when they were perhaps all together. What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined!
People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about what we know pretty well. They always want to know things that we don't know.
A philosopher is someone who says, "We know it`s possible in practice; we`re trying to work out if it`s possible in principle!"