Top 5 Quotes And Sayings About "YOU THINK YOU KNOW"

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

- Carrie Vaughn

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

topic: Real, Thinking, You Think You Know

You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.

- Henning Mankell

topic: Thinking, Surprise, You Think You Know

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

topic: Fear, Thinking, You Think You Know

If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.

- Larry Poons

topic: Thinking, Years, You Think You Know

What you think you know versus what you actually learn.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

topic: Thinking, You Think You Know

As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.

- Paul Haggis

source: "Charlize Theron and Paul Haggis on In the Valley of Elah". MovieWeb interview, movieweb.com. September 11, 2007.

topic: Thinking, You Think You Know, Knows

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

- Frank Herbert

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

topic: Thinking, Perfect, You Think You Know

It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.

- Steve Martin

source: "Saturday Night Live: The Best of Steve Martin". www.imdb.com. 1998.

topic: Thinking, Abiding, You Think You Know, Law Abiding Citizen

When you think you know it all, there's not much that you'll learn.

- Ralph Marston

topic: Thinking, Know It All, You Think You Know

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

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: Thinking, Know It All, You Think You Know

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

- C. S. Lewis

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

topic: Thinking, You Think You Know, Know Me

You have to be careful what you think you know.

- Simon Sinek

source: Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.19, Penguin

topic: Thinking, Be Careful, You Think You Know

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

- Jandy Nelson

topic: Thinking, Sometimes, Realizing, You Think You Know

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

topic: Thinking, People, Too Late, You Think You Know

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

- Ray Dalio

topic: Thinking, Investing, Closed Minded, You Think You Know

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

- Hal Elrod

source: FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jan 07, 2010

topic: Thinking, Wake Up, Waking Up Early, You Think You Know

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

- Bill Gates

topic: Inspirational, Success, Teacher, Young Entrepreneurs, Business Life

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

- Marsha Johnson Evans

topic: Inspirational, Change, Thinking, You Think You Know

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

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

topic: Lying, Believe, Thinking, You Think You Know, Living A Lie

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

- Benjamin Spock

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

topic: Family, Trust, Encouraging, Trust Your Instincts, Inspirational Confidence

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

source: "Telephony", Volume 150, 1956.

topic: Education, Memories, Learning, Inspirational Educational, You Think You Know

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

- Joe Hill

topic: Thinking, Want, What You Want, You Think You Know

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

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

topic: Eye, Thinking, Faces, You Think You Know

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

topic: Thinking, Knowing, People, You Think You Know, Knowing The Truth

You can't learn anything new, until you are open enough to forget everything you think you know

- James Victore

topic: Thinking, Forget Everything, Enough, You Think You Know

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

- Christopher Moore

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

topic: Thinking, Stories, Ends, You Think You Know

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

- Andrew O'Hagan

topic: Thinking, Tests, Limits, You Think You Know, Traveling Alone

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

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Real, Thinking, People, You Think You Know

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

- Haruki Murakami

topic: Relationship, Memories, Thinking, You Think You Know

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

topic: Thinking, Bother, Wells, You Think You Know, Getting To Know Each Other

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Humility, Thinking, Want, You Think You Know, Dorian Grey

Once you think you know the song, then you have go and see how other people have done it.

- Bob Dylan

source: Interview with Robert Love, www.aarp.org. February, 2015.

topic: Song, Thinking, People, You Think You Know

Holding a grudge against someone means you think you know what they deserve and you take it upon yourself to give it to them.

- Timothy Keller

topic: Mean, Thinking, Giving, You Think You Know

Eventually we realize that not knowing what to do is just as real and just as useful as knowing what to do. Not knowing stops us from taking false directions. Not knowing what to do, we start to pay real attention. Just as people lost in the wilderness, on a cliff face or in a blizzard pay attention with a kind of acuity that they would not have if they thought they knew where they were. Why? Because for those who are really lost, their life depends on paying real attention. If you think you know where you are, you stop looking.

- David Whyte

topic: Inspirational, Real, Thinking, You Think You Know, Knowing What To Do

Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Thinking, Knowing, Important, You Think You Know, Competencies

I wonder which is worse-the death, not knowing what comes after, or the wedding, when you think you know, but you're wrong.

- Sharyn McCrumb

topic: Thinking, Knowing, Wonder, You Think You Know

I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?

- Eliezer Yudkowsky

topic: Believe, Thinking, Fundamentals, You Think You Know

As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water.

- Martha Beck

topic: Thinking, Deep Water, Truth Is, You Think You Know

As you get older and you realize you really don't know as much as you think you know, you listen more. Because then you think, now I need to be more receptive to the things I don't know. That's how you learn.

- Phil Keoghan

source: "A Conversation with Phil Keoghan | Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Thinking, Needs, Realizing, You Think You Know, Receptive

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

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

topic: Believe, Thinking, Bullshit, You Think You Know, Beads

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

- Darcey Steinke

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

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Important, You Think You Know, Unknowing

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

topic: Thinking, Age, Teens, You Think You Know

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

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

topic: Wise, Children, Thinking, You Think You Know

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

topic: Fun, Thinking, Squares, You Think You Know, Receptive

Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.

- Stella Young

source: ""I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much"". TED Talk, www.ted.com. April 2014.

topic: Thinking, Doe, Disability, You Think You Know

When you sit quietly and let go of every false self-definition , of everything you think you know about who you are, and then be what's left, what remains is the untarnished presence of who you've always been and still really are.

- Erich Schiffmann

source: Erich Schiffmann (2013). “Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

topic: Letting Go, Thinking, Self, You Think You Know

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

- Robert M. Pirsig

source: 1974 Zen and theArt of MotorcycleMaintenance, pt.3, ch.24.

topic: Knowledge, Science, Thinking, You Think You Know

You think you know who you are, and then other people have these other ideas.

- Juliana Hatfield

topic: Thinking, Ideas, People, You Think You Know

I think, one thing that I've really come to appreciate about my parents as I've got older is you know, how wise they really were. As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that. I had different opinions on a lot of different things then them but the way they raised me, in hindsight, they were right.

- Tiger Woods

topic: Wise, Growing Up, Kids, You Think You Know, Different Opinions

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.

- Callie Khouri

topic: Character, Thinking, Quality, You Think You Know, Redeeming Qualities

As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that.

- Tiger Woods

topic: Growing Up, Kids, Thinking, You Think You Know

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

topic: Thinking, Hands, Doubt, You Think You Know

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

- Kirsten Miller

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

topic: Thinking, Matter, Surprise, You Think You Know

Just when you think you know something, it gets turned around and challenged in some way. But those changes are welcome because you end up learning more.

- Jennifer Beals

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

topic: Thinking, Way, Welcome, You Think You Know, Learning More

Impressionism means taking inspiration directly from nature, trusting your senses rather than what you think you know.

- Michael McClure

topic: Inspiration, Mean, Thinking, Impressionism, You Think You Know

But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose.

- J. M. Ledgard

source: J M Ledgard (2011). “Submergence”, p.33, Random House

topic: Moving, Thinking, Doors, You Think You Know, Corridors

You make a movie and it's like convincing people to go on an expedition with you. You think you know where it's going to end up, and you're hoping and guessing. But, when people trust you and get involved, based on that trust, it's a really nice feeling to be able to have everything pay off.

- David Ayer

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Nice, Thinking, People, You Think You Know, Nice Feeling

Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.

- Jonathan Franzen

topic: Thinking, World, Talent, You Think You Know

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