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You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.