Confucius Quotes
Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.
Confucius
Quotes to Explore
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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Mark Twain
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Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for
W. S. Merwin
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Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
When the last fires will wave to me
W. S. Merwin
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Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.
May Sinclair
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We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech - but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun.
A. S. Byatt
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I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.
Alan Alda
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There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In the old country, a man can be no more than his father, providing he works hard. If his father was a carpenter, he may be a carpenter. He many not be a teacher or a priest. He may rise - but only to his father's state. In the old country, a man is given to the past. Here he belongs to the future. In this land, he may be what he will, if he has the good heart and the way of working honestly at the right things.
Betty Smith
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I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.
Bill Clinton
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It's very difficult to do street casting with girls, because a beautiful girl in real life won't necessarily have the silhouette or the presence needed for a show.
Christophe Lemaitre
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Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.
Confucius