I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks. My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

-Agate,James
  Journal entry, 9  Jun. Collected in Ego 6 (1944).

Il n'existe que trois e"  tres respectables: le pre"  tre, le guerrier, le poe'  te. Savoir, tuer et cre¤  er. There are only three respectable beings: priest, warrior, poet. To know, to kill and to create.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Mon coeur mis a'   nu, pt.22.

He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 46:9^10.

When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; Until Iwent intothesanctuaryof God; thenunderstood I their end.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 73:16^17.

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms103:15^16.

  Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 7:20.

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know; and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

-Cary, (Arthur) Joyce Lunel
  Art and Reality, introduction.

Aprendamos a ignorar, pensamiento, pues hallamos que cuanto an‹  ado al discurso, tanto le usurpo a los an‹  os. Thought, let's learn not to know, since so plainly it appears that whatever we add to our minds we take away from our years.

-Cruz, SorJuana Ine¤  s de la
  A Sor Juana  Anthology,'Acusa la hidropes |¤ a de mucha ciencia' (translated as'She Condemns the Bloatedness of Much Learning',1985).

You mentioned yournameasif Ishould recogniseit, but I assure you that, beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a Freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  The Return of Sherlock Holmes,'The Norwood Builder'.

And what you do not know is the only thing you know And what you own is what you do not own And where you are is where you are not.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.3.

Ich kann nur berichten, was ich weiÞ. I can only report on what I know.

-Frisch, Max Rudolph
  Homo Faber, pt.1.

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.

-Fuller,Thomas
  The Holy and Profane State, bk.2, ch.4,'Of  Travelling'.

Ich kenne mich auch nicht und Gott soll michauch davor behuten. I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

-Goethe,JohannWolfgang von
  Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe,10  Apr.

In your heart, you know I'm right.

-Goldwater, Barry M(orris)
  Presidential campaign slogan.

The clever men at Oxford Know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much As intelligent MrToad.

-Grahame, Kenneth
  The Wind in the Willows, ch.10.

If you don't know where you are, you're nowhere.

-Grosvenor, Gilbert M
On the NGS's establishment of a $20-million foundation to fight ignorance of geography. Quoted in the Washington Post,14  Jan 1988.

I saw that lack of love contaminates, You know I know you know I know you know.

-Gunn,Thom(sonWilliam)
  'Carnal Knowledge'.

Whether Iwas inmy bodyoroutof my bodyas Iwroteit I know not.God knows.

-Handel, George Frideric
Of the'Hallelujah Chorus' in his Messiah. Quoted in Romain Rolland Essays on Music (1948).

We can scarcely hate any one that we know.

-Hazlitt,William
  Table Talk, vol.2,'On Criticism'.

Ich kenn es wohl, dein Missgeschick: Verfehltes Leben, verfehlte Liebe! I know it well, your mishap: A missed life, a missed love!

-Heine, Heinrich
^4  Neue Gedichte, Unterwelt, pt.5.