The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
Golda Meir

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
Edward de Bono

When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
Jack Kevorkian

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
William Safire

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
Benjamin Disraeli

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Benjamin Disraeli

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Ray Bradbury

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
Bertrand Russell

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
Bertrand Russell

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
Bertrand Russell

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.
Dean Martin

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
Will Durant

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
Aeschylus

The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you.
Jane Wagner

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
Jean Piaget

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.
Marc Chagall

As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like.
Protagoras