Source: Horns
“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variant: You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Man and the Gospel (1865) by Thomas Guthrie "and you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it."
“We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives them to.” -- Alexander Pope (1727).
Misattributed
Variant: If you want to know what the Lord God thinks of money, just look at those to whom he gives it.
Yann Martel book Life of Pi
Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 99, p. 336
Context: I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.
Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer
Session 340, Page 25
The Early Sessions: Sessions 1-42, 1997, The Early Sessions: Book 8
“Believe that if Allah wants you to know something, someone will tell you.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist
“It's important to know what you don't want, but it's vital to know what you DO want.”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 152
“If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
“… You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.”
Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride
Source: Along for the Ride
