#knows

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#hardly #honest #knows #man #principle

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20? ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#been #discovered #hadn #half #how

I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows! ↗

— Patricia Clarkson

#big screen #bikini #going #i #knows

I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing. ↗

— John Cleese

#dinner #doing #else #everyone #family

Flee an enemy who knows your weakness. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#flee #knows #weakness #who #your

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke. ↗

— William Cowper

#enough #knows #who

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#completely #controls #corporate #current #everyone

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#essentially #everyone #fact #guilty #himself

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic. ↗

— Horst Koehler

#both #both sides #capable #compromise #country

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return? ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

#beauties #catch #ever #fly #forms