The great thing isto last and get your workdone, and see and hear and understand and write when there is something that you know and not before and not too damn much after.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
  Death in the Afternoon, ch.16.

Hay hombres que de su ciencia tienen la cabeza llena; hay sabios de todas menas, mas digo, sin ser muy ducho: es mejor que aprender mucho el aprender cosas buenas. There are some men who have their heads full up with the things they know. Wise men come in all sizes, but I don't need so much sense to say

-Herna¤ n dez,Jose¤

Science has 'explained'nothing: the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

-Huxley, Aldous Leonard
  Views of Holland.

Anti-classic art, if it may even be called an art, is merely theart oftheidle.It isthe doctrine ofthosewho desireto produce without working, to know without learning.

-Ingres,Jean Auguste Dominique
  Quoted in Henri Delaborde Ingres, sa vie, ses travaux, sa doctrine (1870).

As I know more of mankind I expect less ofthem, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Remark, Sep. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

   Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

-Jong, Erica ne¤  e Mann
  How To SaveYour Own Life.

Sapere aude, havethe couragetoknow: that isthemotto of enlightenment.

-Kant, Immanuel
  His reply to a newspaper's challenge to define enlightenment. Quoted in The Economist,16 Mar1996.

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'öthat is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

-Keats,John
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'Ode on a Grecian Urn', stanza 5.

You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)
Comment on methods of assassination. Quoted in Peter Collier and David Horowitz The Kennedys (1984).

Winds of the World, give answer! Theyare whimpering to and froö And what should they know of England who only England know?ö The poor little street-bred people that vapour and fume and brag.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'The English Flag'.

She had reached an age where she thought she could not stand to knowany more†she pushed any discovery aside with embarassment.

-Munro, Alice ne¤  e Laidlaw
  Lives of Girls and Women,'Royal Beatings'.

How did they know?

-Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild
  Attributed response on hearing of the death of President Calvin Coolidge.

Half of them don't know what's going to happen tomorrow and the other half don't know they don't know.

-Quinn,Jane Bryant
  Of stock market players. On CNN TV, 4 Apr.

The leader must know, must know that he knows and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those about him that he knows.

-Randall, Clarence Beldan
  Making Good in Management.

We don't know where that money came from and we don't know who had it and we don't know where it went.

-Reagan, Ronald Wilson
  Of the Iran^Contra funding. In the NewYorkTimes,17 Mar.

In a civil war, a general must knowöand I'm afraid it's a thing rather of instinct than of practiceöhe must know exactly when to move over to the other side.

-Reed, Henry
  Not a DrumWas Heard:TheWar Memoirs of General Gland, unpublished radio play.

There is only one constant preoccupation: I have throughout been anxious to discover how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.

-Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl
  My Philosophical Development, ch.1.

   The people know what the land knows.

-Sandburg, Carl
  The People,Yes.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

-Sellers, Peter
Attributed.

The very power of science to hold knowledge as collective knowledge is founded upon a degree and a quality of trust which are arguably unparalleled elsewhere in our culture† Scientists know so much about the natural world by knowing so much about whom they can trust.

-Shapin, Steven
  A Social History ofTruth.