Sentence examples for was to know something from inspiring English sources

To know Willie was to know something of the compassion and street wisdom he conferred upon his male characters.

I told her I could dub her a foodie, if that was what she wanted, but when we got down to it, what she wanted was to know something — access.

To know that knowledge is impossible is to know something.

To know that knowledge is impossible is to know something; hence, dogmatic Skepticism must be false.

The purpose of playing a concert should be to know something at the end of it that you didn't know at the beginning".

In that case, to know the syllable is to know something for which knowledge of the elements is not sufficient.

Thus Hobbes accepts the Aristotelian idea that to have the best sort of knowledge, scientific knowledge, is to know something through its causes.

Not only is Trump ignorant of his ignorance but, as George Will put it, "he does not know what it is to know something".

I told her I could dub her a foodie, if that was what she wanted, but when we got down to it, what she wanted was to know something access.

To paraphrase Nagel, there is something it is like to know something, and that "something" is different from what it is like to feel or desire something.

"It's to know there's something out here that will multiply.