You Think You Know Quotes

• I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.

  Lynn Barber

  Lying, Believe, Thinking

  “My harsh lesson in love and life” by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2009.

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  Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

  Benjamin Spock

  Positive, Family, Trust

  The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

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• An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

  Anatole France

  Education, Memories, Learning

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• The less you 'think' you know, the greater your ability to learn and grow.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, Wake Up, Waking Up Early

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jan 07, 2010

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• That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all.

  Orson Scott Card

  Thinking, Bother, Wells

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.36, Macmillan

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• The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.

  Ray Dalio

  Thinking, Investing, Closed Minded

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• You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

  Joe Hill

  Thinking, Want, Knows

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• Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things that you think you know are never certain. I know that now. I wish that I didn't, but I do.

  Robert Crais

  Wise, Children, Thinking

  Robert Crais (2003). “The Last Detective: A Novel”, p.20, Doubleday

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• A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.

  Kenneth Clark

  Thinking, People, Too Late

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• In your teens, you think you know everything, and you know nothing. By your thirties, you're sure you know nothing, but you're happy with that.

  Tea Leoni

  Thinking, Age, Teens

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• Success is a lousy teacher. It makes you think you know what you're doing.

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Thinking, Make You Think

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• I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know.

  Darcey Steinke

  Thinking, Ideas, Important

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• If you think you know it all, you are not listening.

  Marsha Johnson Evans

  Inspirational, Change, Thinking

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• Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

  Haruki Murakami

  Relationship, Memories, Thinking

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “A Wild Sheep Chase”, p.137, Random House

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• If you think you know it all, you really know nothing.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Thinking, Know It All, Knows

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• No one can know truth except the one who obeys truth. You think you know truth. People memorize the Scriptures by the yard, but that is not a guarantee of knowing the truth. Truth is not a text. Truth is in the text, but it takes the text plus the Holy Spirit to bring truth to a human soul.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Thinking, Knowing, People

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• Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or endeavor you've ever concocted, can be stripped from you in an instant. Sooner or later, it will happen. So prepare yourself. Be ready not to be ready. Be ready to be brought to your knees and beaten to dust. Because no stable foundation, no act of will, no force of cautious habit will save you from this fact: nothing is indestructible.

  Jonathan Evison

  Taken, Thinking, Dust

  Jonathan Evison (2013). “The Fundamentals of Caring”, p.221, Head of Zeus

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• You’re never ready for the truth. No matter how much you think you know, it always takes you by surprise.

  Kirsten Miller

  Thinking, Matter, Surprise

  Kirsten Miller (2013). “How to Lead a Life of Crime”, p.184, Penguin

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• Miffed, I poked him in the chest. 'You think you know everything?' His hands caressed my back. 'Not everything, but some things. I knew without a doubt I'd fallen in love when we met. Then I knew I'd do anything to make you feel the same way.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Thinking, Hands, Doubt

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• You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock.

  Robert Breault

  Change, Thinking, Tick

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• Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a world where everybody said, 'We don't know?' The fact is that you're surrounded -God and you don't see God, because you KNOW ABOUT God. The final barrier to the vision of God is your God concept. You miss God because you think you know. The highest knowledge of God is to know God as unknowable. All revelations, however divine, are never any more than a finger pointing at the moon. As we say in the East, 'When the sage points to the moon, all the idiot sees is the finger'.

  Anthony de Mello

  God, Thinking, Moon

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• Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions.

  Roddy Piper

  Motivational, Sports, Wrestling

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• This wasn't strong-willed, fly-by-the-seat-of-her-miniskirt Kate that I'd befriended last year. You think you know a girl- and then she goes and loses her virginity at a Mardi Gras party and goes soft.

  Lauren Kate

  Girl, Strong, Party

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove”, p.104, Penguin

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• I let the beast in too soon I don't know how to live without his hand on my throat. I fight him always and still. Oh, darling it's so sweet. You think you know how crazy, how crazy I am.

  Fiona Apple

  Sweet, Crazy, Fighting

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• You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Know Me, Knows

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol VI: The Magician's Nephew”, p.107, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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