Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!
The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway.
If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.
Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know.
Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible.
Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?
I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.
There isn't anything you can expose Trump on that people don't already know and haven't already accepted.
The considerations upon which expectations of prospective yields are based are partly existing facts which we can assume to be known more or less for certain, and partly future events which can only be forecasted with more or less confidence.
It is not hard to get men to agree when the facts are known.
The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
There are things we know and things we don't know about food. But there are certain basic things we do know, and that's what I've tried to build these rules on.
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.
In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts
