“He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Quien ha visto vaciarse todo, casi sabe de qué se llena todo.
Voces (1943)
“He knows everything there is to know in the FBI. He has access to absolutely everything.”
H.R. Haldeman, White House chief of staff statement about Felt's suspected leaks in 1972 to Richard Nixon, to which Nixon replied, "Why in the hell would he do that?"
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“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara
Source: 1900s, Major Barbara (1905)
“He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.”
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
Qui sait tout souffrir peut tout oser.
Variant: He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 176.
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
Review of Their Finest Hour by Winston Churchill, New Leader (14 May 1949)
Context: It is difficult for a statesman who still has a political future to reveal everything that he knows: and in a profession in which one is a baby at 50 and middle-aged at seventy-five, it is natural that anyone who has not actually been disgraced should feel that he still has a future.
“He who knows the All but fails to know himself lacks everything.”
Thomas the Apostle Apostle of Jesus Christ
67
Gospel of Thomas (c. 50? — c. 140?)
“I want to know everything, he says.”
China Miéville book Iron Council
“Anamnesis” (p. 202)
Iron Council (2004)
Ludwig Feuerbach (1804–1872) German philosopher and anthropologist
Lecture XXX, Atheism alone a Positive View <br class="br"> Lectures on the Essence of Religion http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/feuerbach/works/lectures/index.htm (1851)
“The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.”
Sitting Bull (1831–1890) Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man
GoodReads https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5712889.Sitting_Bull <br class="br">Attributed quotes
Black Elk (1863–1950) Oglala Lakota leader
The Sacred Pipe (1953)
Context: It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death. He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka who is everything; then he knows that world which is real.