Know It All Quotes

“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.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“I pity the man who praises God only when things go his way.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“We can never reach a stage where we can say, “I know everything, and I have nothing more left to learn.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

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

“Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Some days you feel like you're the worst of sinners; others like you're the most righteous person on earth. I am convinced that the former is when you're closest to God.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“I'd much rather hear someone's unique interpretation of their own experience. Those who negate or override someone else's experience in order to one-up them or to show off their own knowledge or perceived abilities are in truth showing off their lack of listening skills and wisdom.”
― Tonya Sheridan

“Larry was always full of ideas about things of which he had no experience.”
― Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals

“You certainly are Lord Know-It-All this evening, aren’t you?”

“Only when necessary. Otherwise I try not to let my brilliance overshadow my giving and loving nature.”
― G.A. Aiken, Supernatural

“You don’t need to teach your heart anything.
It already knows everything.”
― Kate McGahan

“Watch your step or you might fall, you act like your a know-it-all. yeah, I used to do that, used to be like that, still a bit like that.”
― kodaline

“You are an interfering old busybody,' laughed Bilbo, 'but I expect you know best, as usual.'
'I do - when I know anything.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Our troubles begin the moment our teachers believe they know it all, and our learners think they are not teachable.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Let's go to the Next Level

“I prefer to be seen as a know-nothing idiot, than a know-it-all bigot.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Monk Meets World

“The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. Lincoln asked, “How many legs will a sheep have if you call a tail a leg?”
“Five,” the man answered.
“No,” replied Lincoln, “he’ll still have four, because calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it one.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

“Here’s the nice thing about being over 60: You know enough to know you don’t know everything, however much you’ve learned.”
― Gina Barreca

“People will often absorb and learn from your advice but then quickly dismiss it as "common sense". The thing about sense though is it's not that common.”
― Torron-Lee Dewar

“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.”
― Criss Jami

“So I should probably just tell you I'm about as green as these pistachios when it comes to macaroons. I've never even eaten one, let alone made---" I begin self-consciously, but Benny cuts me off.
"Macarrrons," he says, throwing his hands up emphatically and rolling the r for longer than seems necessary. Not macaroons. Important distinction, Reese's Pieces. Two different cookies."
I shake my head on an exhale, trying hard to keep my composure. "Right, well. Painful as it was to admit it the first time, I'll repeat that I've still never had a macaron, so you've gotta, like, tell me what to do."
Benny grins at me, then looks directly into the camera. "It would be my honor."
He shuffles around more bowls and I mock-whisper to the imaginary audience, "Apologies in advance to, well, feminism as a whole."
"Did you say something?" Benny teases, pushing the pistachios toward me with finality. "There are just so many recipes, so much knowledge in my head that sometimes it's hard to hear anything outside it, you know?"
"Keep it up, Benjamin," I say in the warning tone that my mamaw would use to tell my papaw that he should very much not keep it up.”
― Kaitlyn Hill, Love from Scratch

“What is more, nobody has ever actually proved him wrong. His chief trouble was that he usually provided such large, indigestible slabs that they stuck in all gullets—even mine, and I would class myself as a fairly wide-gulleted type.”
― John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

“Ah,” Sean said, smothering a laugh. “The brilliant plan falling apart? Wow. Wish I’d seen that coming. Oh. Wait. I did.”
― maureen child, Her Return to King's Bed

“Wise people do not claim to know it all, they always prefer to learn from others.”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“To be macho, you must already know everything, know it so well that you're already bored by the knowledge.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, The Water Museum

“There’s plenty wrong with the need to be right.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“The belief that you know more than everyone else is a recipe for mediocrity.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Opinion on everything, expert in nothing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator