Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
Horace Walpole

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
Charles Spurgeon

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
John Steinbeck

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
John Steinbeck

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
Epictetus

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
Epictetus

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
Bette Davis

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Carl Jung

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
James A. Baldwin

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
James A. Baldwin

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?
Jean-Paul Sartre

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.
Robert Collier

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
Og Mandino

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
George Bernard Shaw

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
George Bernard Shaw

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson