Knowing Everything quotes
21 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I can’t hate people for making judgment on me, or making a decision of liking me or not liking me. All I can do is try to better as a person. And I’m good with knowing everything isn’t always going to be perfect."
"Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery."
"Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes."
"the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything)"
"There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always be waiting at a particular finish line: journalists with their cameras, impatient crowds eager to call the race, astounded to see the scientists approach, pass the mark, and keep running. It's a common misunderstanding, he said. They conclude there was no race. As long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing."
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"Be boring, knowing everything. You have to give all that stuff up if you're going to muck about here."