Confucius Quotes
Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.
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It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'
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The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
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The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.
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Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
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I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.
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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
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Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for
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Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me
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Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.
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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.
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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.
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She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.
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If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.
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We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations
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I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.
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There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.
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It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get them all right with the first coat like many of the old masters could, but seem destined to have to rework to make them even passable.
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I have even taught classes on writing about sex, and I've looked closely at different writers' sex scenes. On the level of craft I've given it a lot of thought. The pitfalls are simple: It can sound clinical or medical, which isn't right, or pornographic, because the characters disappear.
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It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.
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Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.
