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

  Ray Dalio

  Thinking, Investing, Closed Minded

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• Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing.

  Jandy Nelson

  Thinking, Sometimes, Realizing

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

  Marsha Johnson Evans

  Inspirational, Change, Thinking

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

  Joe Hill

  Thinking, Want, Knows

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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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• 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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• You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.

  Marianne Wiggins

  Eye, Thinking, Faces

  Marianne Wiggins (2008). “The Shadow Catcher: A Novel”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• I never look at the internet because then you just have nothing else to do but just look. Most generally, and even myself as a consumer, you think you know what you want. But what's more interesting is figuring out what you don't want. I think the only way that I can do that is just to do what I think is right. That is the only real gesture of respect. Then people can react to the movie how they want to react.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't.

  Christopher Moore

  Thinking, Stories, Ends

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Real, Thinking, Knows

  Carrie Vaughn (2011). “Kitty's Big Trouble”, p.118, Hachette UK

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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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• 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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• 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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• Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Thinking, Tests, Limits

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• It was great fun, to learn anew. You think you know enough, but you don't. You must open up; let it in. be receptive, admit what you don't know, which few are willing to do. Start from square one. Again!

  Alex Toth

  Fun, Thinking, Squares

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• You think you know yourself, the world. You believe you've got a bead on everybody else's bullshit, but what about your own?

  Sam Lipsyte

  Believe, Thinking, Bullshit

  Sam Lipsyte (2013). “The Fun Parts: Stories”, p.20, Macmillan

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• When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.

  Frank Herbert

  Thinking, Perfect, Barriers

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.203, Penguin

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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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• 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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