Best Know It Alls Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion.”

Source: Healology

“During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly 'I don't know.”

Source: Killosophy

“It's okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.”

Source: Killosophy

“Life and love are not about what you know, but about what you know you don't know.”

Wisdom Knowledge Knowing Life Experience Know It Alls

Book:Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

Source: Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“When you’re given the gift of truth, you spend a lot of time trying to tone it down because it is already offensive enough.”

Philosophy Humor Truth Funny Advice Laugh Thinkers Joking Observations Know It Alls Lighten Up Commentaries Over Thinkers Religious Opinions

Author:Shannon L. Alder

“Folk like to pretend they know everything about the world. Rich folk especially. Maps are great for that. [...] You don't have blanks on your map, so the folks who draw them shade in a piece and write, 'The Eld.' You might as well burn a hole right through the map for what good that does.”

Maps Cartography Know It Alls

Book:The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“Nobody knows what God's plan is for your life, but a whole lot of people will guess for you if you let them.”

Fear Plans Advice Ignorance Spectators Stupid People Opinions Guessing God S Plan Brainwashing Controllers Know It Alls Controlling People Guilt Trips Speculate Fear Based Advice

Author:Shannon L. Alder

“Men wanted to be strong. One way to be strong was to be knowledgeable. In so many areas, it was not possible to be knowledgeable without getting a Ph.D. and doing a postdoc. Guns and hunting provided an out for men who wanted to be know-it-alls but who couldn't afford to spend the first three decades of their lives getting up to speed on quantum mechanics or oncology.”

Ego Masculinity Know It Alls

Book:Reamde

Source: Reamde

“Sadly, the natural world is not short of people who believe that rattling off Latin names incessantly makes them appear clever, whereas most of us know instinctively that this suggests insecurity at best, but possibly social and sexual dysfunction as well. If somebody corrects you sternly by using an obtuse name for something, they probably know neither human nature nor any other kind very profoundly.”

Humor Nature Latin Condescension Know It Alls Pompousness

Book:How to Connect with Nature

Source: How to Connect with Nature

“Scribes freak me out. Quiet little know-it-alls, acting like they can make or break someone by writing something down.”

Funny Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros Scribes Know It Alls Emery Writing Down

Book:Fourth Wing

Source: Fourth Wing

“Ned! if you don’t tell me, it will be quite shameful of you! You always know everything!’‘Yes, Nicky, but you think I know everything because I never tell you anything I am not quite certain of,’ Carlyon replied, looking back at him with his faint smile. ‘What a sad blow it would be to my vanity if you found I could be just as easily mistaken as anyone else! You must let me keep my own counsel until I am certain.”

Wisdom Know It Alls

Book:The Reluctant Widow

Source: The Reluctant Widow

“A know-it-all poses to know everything, so he will therefore tell you anything; although his brain forgets that one crucial thing, which is that other people, too, have brains.”

Brain Deception Arrogance Arrogant Know It All Overconfidence Over Confident Know It Alls Egghead Brainiac

Author:Criss Jami

“Don't be this dude. Go f*ck something up today.”

Life Lessons Perfectionist Failure And Success Know It Alls

Author:Trevor Carss

“There’s plenty wrong with the need to be right.”

Ego Egotism Know It All Egotist Know It Alls Big Head Always Right

Book:The Path to a Meaningful Life

Source: The Path to a Meaningful Life

“I know them, the American men (and women) of the left. Talking to them always makes me feel like the worst kind of dissident, a right-wing freak (or a Republican, at best), even if I consider myself an honest social democrat. For every mild criticism of life in the system I have been living under for the last forty years they look at me suspiciously, as if I were a CIA agent... But one can hardly blame them. It is not the knowledge about communism they lack - I am pretty sure they know all about it - it's the experience of living under such conditions. So, while I am speaking from 'within' the system itself, they are explaining it to me from without. I do not want to claim that you have to be a hen to lay an egg, only that a certain disagreement between two starting points is normal. But they don't go for that; they need to be right.”

Left Communism Leftists Progressives Communists Know It Alls

Book:How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed

Source: How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed