"It's the things that we know FOR SURE, that just ain't so, that get us into trouble."
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"Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life."
"What do we know but that we face one another in this place?"
"You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don't know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me."
"Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment."
"To know one thing thoroughly would be to know the universe."
"I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know."
"Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees?"
"We write to know we are not alone"
"I knew [Timothy] Leary, but barely knew, didn't really know Jan [Kerouac]."
"More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows."
"If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground"
"Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small."
"You know that love Will creep in service where it cannot go."
"Demand me nothing: what you know, you know."
"And how his audit stands who knows, save Heaven?"
"Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better."
"Life... is a paradise to what we know of death."
"For by his face straight shall you know his heart."
"Let them obey that knows not how to rule."