I Quotes
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“I know my worth.
I’ve paid dearly
for every ounce of it.”
“I know my worth, so I keep my word. Each promise kept is proof.”
“I know myself a Man-- Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.”
“I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves?”
Source: Autobiography of values
“I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.”
Source: Notebooks, 1942-1951
“I know myself, and when you start to really know who you are, you don't question it when you read what someone says about you.”
“I know myself," he cried, "but that is all-”
“I know NBC pays my salary but I have never doubted who I work for. I think about the people who watch. They're the ones who matter to me.”
“I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play that one knows well, when there is all the uncertainty of no two performances ever being quite the same. That is why the French say, 'There are no good wines, only good bottles.'”
“I know no better way of waging the battle for Truth than arraying the facts face to face on either side and letting them fight it out.”
“I know no better way to show true patriotism and love for one's country, than investing to create wealth and employment.”
“I know no border beyond God.”
Source: Tajrish
“I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.”
Source: Autobiographies
“I know no diplomacy save that of truth.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
“I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.”
Source: Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version
“I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.”
“I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.”
Source: Ricordi
“I know no man who has any monopoly upon the wisdom of this universe. It belongs to those who can use it to help themselves and others.”
“I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.”
“I know no misery in music.”
“I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.”
Source: Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey
“i know no one who has embraced a love ethic whose life has not become joyous and more fulfilling. the widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. in actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in our lives, including encounters with strangers, nurture our spiritual growth. behaving unethically, with no thought to the consequences of our actions, is a bit like eating tons of junk food. while it may taste good, in the end the body is never really adequately nourished and remains in a constant state of lack and longing. our souls feel this lack when we act unethically, behaving in ways that diminish our spirits and dehumanize others.”
Source: All About Love: New Visions
“I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.”
“I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.”
“I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition.”
Source: On the Genealogy of Morals
“I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.”
Source: North America
“I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness.”
Source: Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld
“I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.”
Source: William Penn, a Historical Biography
“I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of history. Out of the darkness of prehistoric ages man emerges with the marks of his lowly origin strong upon him. He is a brute, only more intelligent than the other brutes, a blind prey to impulses, which as often as not led him to destruction; a victim to endless illusions, which make his mental existence a terror and a burden, and fill his physical life with barren toil and battle.”
Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley
“I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say - I love you”
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Ten Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. With an Appendix..
“I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.”
“I know none of this seems very believable. It probably doesn't even make sense. But for once in your life, please, I am asking you to trust me. Trust yourself.”
Source: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
“I know none of Time’s cardinal pillar on which it says forever just because eternity is not Time anymore.”
Source: Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
“I know not a better rule of reading the Scripture, than to read it through from beginning to end and when we have finished it once, to begin it again. We shall meet with many passages which we can make little improvement of, but not so many in the second reading as in the first, and fewer in the third than in the second: provided we pray to him who has the keys to open our understandings, and to anoint our eyes with His spiritual ointment.”
Source: The Works of the Rev. John Newton ...
“I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.”
“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
Source: Moby Dick
“I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.”
Source: The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd
“I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.”
“I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.”
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales
“I know not every mom is a secret KGB spy, but every mom has this whole other life. Every dad and every person has this whole other life.”
“I know not every song has to be a powerful message.”
“I know not everyone is a musician, but it's important to find that craft and put all of your energy into that. It's about leaving the bad vibes and going to where the good vibes are.”
“I know not everyone starts out reading high literature. If you read enough you might be drawn to some other things, so maybe those vampire books are what they call 'gateway books.' I just coined that term. I don't know if there's a thing called 'gateway books.”
“I know not everyone will like me, but this is who I am so if you don't like it, tough!”
“I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with”
“I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.”
“I know not how the Christians order their own lives, but I know that where their religion begins, Roman rule ends, Rome itself ends, our mode of life ends, the distinction between conquered and conqueror, between rich and poor, lord and slave, ends, government ends, Caesar ends, law and all the order of the world ends; and in place of these appears Christ, with a certain mercy not existent hitherto, and kindness, as opposed to human and our Roman instincts.
(Quo Vadis)”
“I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favor it. For in a way beset with those that contend, on one side for too great Liberty , and on the other side for too much Authority , 'tis hard to passe between the points of both unwounded.”
Source: Leviathan
“I know not how to abstain from reading.”
“I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46