He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.
Woodrow Wilson

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
Charlie Chaplin

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
Fred Allen

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
Aristotle Onassis

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
Aldous Huxley

Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting.
Aldous Huxley

No one knows if Saddam is still alive. They keep showing old footage of him on TV saying that it's live. You know, it's like the same thing we do with Dick Cheney.
David Letterman

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
Marquis de Sade

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
Robert Baden-Powell

Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Man knows so much and does so little.
R. Buckminster Fuller

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.
Ambrose Bierce

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
Denis Waitley

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
Gloria Steinem

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
Jim Elliot