Confucius Quotes

Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.

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• I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Happy
  • Films
  • Liking

• I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Knowing

• 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.'

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Faith
  • Knowing
  • Commit

• The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Like
  • Happiness
  • Knowing

• The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • You
  • Knowing
  • Turning Point

• Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Like
  • More
  • Knowing

• 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.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Like
  • Ideas
  • Knowing

• Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Person
  • Knowing
  • Patriot

• Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Knowing
  • Looking
  • Youth

• Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Day
  • Year
  • Knowing

• Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.

  

  May Sinclair
  • Reality
  • Lose
  • Knowing

• 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
  • World
  • Together
  • Words

• 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
  • Afraid
  • Knowing
  • Satisfaction

• 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.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Women
  • She
  • Knowing

• If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

  

  Eamon Duffy
  • History
  • Failure
  • Knowing

• We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations

  

  Barack Obama
  • Children
  • Future
  • Failure

• I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Words
  • Water
  • Mean

• There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Feeling
  • Knowing

• What's my audience? British society. Am I received relatively well? Yes. Is there within that... if you break it down, challenges with Muslim communities? Of course there are.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Challenges
  • Down

• When I was 9 or 10 years old, my dad took me over to a neighboring farm to help get stuff for the meal. The farmer, Vic, told me to look at all the turkeys and pick one out. I saw a cute one with a silly walk and cried, 'Him!' Before my pointing finger had even dropped to my side, Vic had grabbed the turkey by the neck and slit the animal's throat. Blood and feathers went flying. I had sentenced that turkey to death! Up until then, I didn't know where meat came from—and I've been a vegetarian ever since.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Dad
  • Helping
  • Flying

• Disaster mitigation... increases the self reliance of people who are at risk - in other words, it is empowering.

  

  Ian Davis
  • People
  • Words
  • Risk

• Stanley Kubrick was brilliant at getting under the audience's skin. He was very interested in the idea of, 'How can I tell this with just a camera?'

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Idea
  • Camera
  • Skin

• My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they're home in the summer, although they have jobs.

  

  Erika Slezak
  • College
  • Daughter
  • Summer

• Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.

  

  Confucius
  • Knowing
  • Liking
  • Rejoicing