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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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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Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know." "I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good.
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I couldn't sleep knowing I was going to leave my Miami. It's always going to be my home, but it's not the same.
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It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.
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Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.
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The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.
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Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.
