Even the stories I thought I knew well turn out to have more details.
"I thought I knew more than what they were teaching in school, " he said.
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Having had similar calls before, I thought I knew what was coming.
"Just graduated from college, I thought I knew everything, " he says.
"Fifteen years ago, I thought I knew everything, " says the husband and father of two teenagers who says he intends to work another 15 years or so.
It was all very conspiratorial, and I felt strangely privileged to have been afforded such an unusual, if grubby, perspective on a city I thought I knew well.
As a young man I thought I knew everything, and as a middle-aged man I still think I know everything but have allowed myself some subtle U-turns on things I once believed to be universal truths.
After more than 25 years of dining professionally at the best restaurants in the old world, I thought I knew that the crucial building blocks of flavor are long-simmered meat or seafood stocks and deglazed pan juices.
"I think McCain, I thought he was intelligent, I think he knew a lot about foreign affairs, I just think he wants war more than I want war, " she said.
Often I thought of trying to let you know what I knew I would do.
Watching Kate micromanage Jon as he installed that garage shelving, I thought, Do I sound like that? and knew with certainty that I often do.
"I thought maybe we were too far back, but I knew (the leaders) were cooking and when he punched the button I knew we were going to be a factor, " McGaughey said.
And I thought about it for a second, you know, because I knew most of the guys I knew who dealt, they had nice clothes, you know, they had pagers, they had all these things that I really wanted at the time.
As we passed people on the sidewalk whom I knew slightly, I thought about shouting "Yo!"
Surely I thought that someone at Delta actually knew something about this program and what they were talking about!
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Ever been at a party and thought, "If I only knew how to beatbox I could really kick this event up a notch, maybe make some friends"?
But back then I thought "believers" were people who knew exactly what they believed, and had nailed all the answers.
For a long time, before I knew the truth, I thought it was the physical assault of pregnancy that had claimed her cheery disposition.
After landing in Narita, I took a shuttle bus straight to Shibuya where I knew I'd find the epicenter of all that defined what I thought I would find.
"I knew a few of their names, and there were a handful of models there, and I thought, 'This could be a interesting group portrait, ' " he said.
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For instance, in order to compete with the big management consulting firms, I knew we would have to be seen as thought leaders and have clients from different regions and sectors.
Suddenly I knew what she wanted to do, and with that thought the sourness of the coffee rose in my throat.
At first I thought that this was because Comstock had lived that life before, and knew it was coming.
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Here in Bristol, where the BBC series Casualty is filmed, I asked people what they knew about paramedics, and how much training they thought they received.
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