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«New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!»
«I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you»
«Some things you'll never know, and some things you'll wish you never knew.»
Author: Eric Williams | Keywords: knew, some, wish
«No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.»
«Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance»
«I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.»
«I was a freethinker before I knew how to think»
«Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.»
«To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?»
«No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy»

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