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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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 -
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 -
The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran -
Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
Harper Lee -
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 -
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 -
Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me
W. S. Merwin -
Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.
May Sinclair -
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 -
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 -
If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.
Eamon Duffy
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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
Barack Obama -
I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.
Lucille Clifton -
There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Gabrielle Zevin -
I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.
Joanne Rowling -
Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it.
Loudon Wainwright III
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If you think you fit into a situation, it's worth trying.
Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club -
Firestarter' was a risk, we had never done a fully vocal track before and Keith had never sung before. It was hardly the safe option. We could have turned out the same old tunes over and over again, but that's not what The Prodigy are about. We are about taking risks.
Maxim The Prodigy -
What were you two talking about?" she whispered as Wes pulls the door shut. Nothing," I said. "Running." You should have seen your face," she said, her breath hot in my ear. "Sa-woooon.
Sarah Dessen -
As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance – an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love – hen external lack is bound to be temporary.
Marianne Williamson -
Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.
Confucius