„Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.“

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— Richard Feynman, buch The Meaning of It All

lecture I: "The Uncertainty of Science"
The Meaning of It All (1999)

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„I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and know that without believing that I will always know what I know or that what I know will always be true.“

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— Maya Angelou American author and poet 1928 - 2014

„If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.“

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— Margaret Atwood Canadian writer 1939

Quelle: The Tent

„Don't know how it all got started, I don't know what they do with their lives…“

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— Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Tangled Up In Blue

„Do you know what it's like to be suddenly poor and not know how to live poor?“

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— Larry Niven, buch A Relic of the Empire

Quelle: Short fiction, Neutron Star (1968), A Relic of the Empire (p. 43)

„I do know without fear of contradiction what the definition of life is and it is 12 words long. 'Life is defined by how much you improve the lives of others.“

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— Keith Olbermann American sports and political commentator 1959

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„I have always been aware of how I break.
I know what kind of situations will break me.
I know what kind of people will do it.
I know how much it will hurt.“

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— David Levithan, buch Every You, Every Me

Quelle: Every You, Every Me

„You know how I always believe in the future … Without disorder, the revolution is impossible; knowing that, I did not lose hope, and I do not lose it now.“

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— Peter Kropotkin Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, scientist, revolutionary, economist, activist, geographer, writer 1842 - 1921

Letter to a friend (November 1920), as quoted in Peter Kropotkin : From Prince to Rebel (1990) by George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumovic, p. 428

„How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?
I don't know, but some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.“

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— L. Frank Baum, buch The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Quelle: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

„I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.“

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— Albert Camus, buch Der Mythos des Sisyphos

The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning, p. 170

„Just resume living. I know some people seem to not want to give up on the wonderful pandemic, but you know what? It’s over. There’s always going to be a variant. You shouldn’t have to wear masks.“

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— Bill Maher American stand-up comedian 1956

Quelle: Sen. Chris Coons and Caitlin Flanagan, Natural Immunity, (2021)

„How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?“

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— John Steinbeck, buch The Grapes of Wrath

Quelle: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

„After all, who knows what the distant past was like? About Kepler and Copernicus, people often say, You captured the period so well! I always want to ask, How do you know? You weren't there either.“

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— John Banville Irish writer 1945

John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200 (2009)

„Once a thing's been done it's been done, so while this nostalgia — I mean for the '60s and '70s, you know, looking backwards for inspiration, copying the past — how's that rock 'n' roll? Do something of your own. Start something new, you know? Live your lives now. Know what I mean?“

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— John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980

BBC interview, used in a Citroën ad, as quoted in "John Lennon Appearance In Car Ad Stirs Controversy" by Monica Herrera in Billboard (4 March 2010) http://www.billboard.com/column-viralvideos/john-lennon-appearance-in-car-ad-stirs-controversy-1004072693.story#/column-viralvideos/john-lennon-appearance-in-car-ad-stirs-controversy-1004072693.story. Though there has been no official dispute that he made this statement, a YouTube video has claimed that the audio used in the advertisement is not original http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipyUk5-wlFg.
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„But if you say: "How am I to know what he means, when I see nothing but the signs he gives?" then I say: "How is he to know what he means, when he has nothing but the signs either?"“

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— Ludwig Wittgenstein, buch Philosophische Untersuchungen

§ 504
Philosophical Investigations (1953)

„There are many things in this world I do not know. I do not know how butterflies get out of their cocoons without damaging their wings. I do not know why anyone would boil vegetables when roasting them is much tastier. I do not know how to make olive oil, and I do not know why dogs bark before an earthquake, and I do not know why some people voluntarily choose to climb mountains where it is freezing and difficult to breathe, or live in the suburbs, where the coffee is watery and all of the houses look alike.“

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— Daniel Handler, buch The Hostile Hospital

Lemony Snicket
The Hostile Hospital (2001)

„To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.“

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— Jean Jacques Rousseau Genevan philosopher 1712 - 1778

„We could do it, you know," Gale says quietly.

"What?" I ask.

"Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it," says Gale.

I don't know how to respond. This idea is so preposterous.“

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— Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Quelle: The Hunger Games

„Why are you leaving me?
He wrote, I do not know how to live.
I do not know either but I am trying.
I do not know how to try.
There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me“

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— Jonathan Safran Foer Novelist 1977

„All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten.“

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— Robert Fulghum, buch All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
Kontext: All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned. These are the things you already know:

„Be with me. Want me. Stay with me.
I don’t know how to be without you.“

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— Cassandra Clare, buch City of Ashes

Quelle: City of Ashes

„Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.“

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