Knowing Quotes
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You too shall pass away. Knowing this, how can you quarrel?
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The key to understanding complicated things is knowing what not to look at.
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If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end.
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[perfectionism leads to] a tendency to apologize preemptively for one's efforts, knowing from experience that there's sure to be something wrong with them.
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The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering.
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You can remember it if you want by unraveling the double helix of inner knowing.
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True wisdom is knowing what you don't know.
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What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.
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Being a Pagan without knowing much about Paganism is a bit silly, in the sense that you would probably have been a Pagan had you known more, but you could not really be because you only knew so much about it.
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She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life.
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The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.
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...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.
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Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.
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Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.
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No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.
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The eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you; one in seeing; one in knowing; one in loving.
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I quickly said that, because of my loyalty to 'Star Trek' and also just being a fan, I wouldn’t even want to be involved in the next version of those things. I declined any involvement very early on. I’d rather be in the audience not knowing what was coming, rather than being involved in the minutiae of making them.
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By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing.
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The ultimate freedom depends on knowing the ultimate Truth. Truth is not what people say it is, it is what it is. And Truth, quite remarkably, sets one free, just like philosophers have said down the ages.
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Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
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Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness.
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A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.
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Happiness isn't a state, it's a skill. It's the skill of knowing how to take what life throws your way and make the most of it.
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There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.
