"We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves."
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"Know that nothing can hinder you but yourself. If you believe you can, you can."
"That is really the freedom that allows you to create something that is exciting because who knows what's true?"
"You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter."
"Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own."
"The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making."
"Of all the places you could go, I just thought you'd choose somewhere that has somebody that you know"
"You have to know the reality and the reality is that we are eternal."
"I've always refused requests even from friends to employ a technique I know nothing about."
"To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it."
"To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. When you say something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say you don't know. That is knowledge."
"Whatever we know without inference is mental."
"The more you know your beauty, power, and worth, the less you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The less you know your beauty, power, and worth, the more you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The more you know, the less you NEED."
"I really don't know what's going to come out of my mouth."
"You’ll never be good if you don’t know that you are."
"Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former."
"I forgot more than you'll ever know."
"Life, it's life we deal with...He that sees the light And knows the light Shall live."
"We suffer only until we realize that we can't know anything."
"'I don't know' is my favorite position."