Knowing Quotes
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And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.
Rabindranath Tagore
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So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are wretched. So if civilization is any good, it has to help us forget our bodies, and then time passes happily without our knowing it. Help us get rid of our bodies altogether.
D. H. Lawrence
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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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You can remember it if you want by unraveling the double helix of inner knowing.
Cherie Carter-Scott
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You too shall pass away. Knowing this, how can you quarrel?
Gautama Buddha
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What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.
Nicholas Sparks
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Do not worry about not holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.
Confucius
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It's very subjective, ... Who's to say what is an appropriate level of investment without knowing that manager's risk and time horizon?
Christopher Doyle
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Dance with me,' Win said. 'I know I'm probably making a fool of myself. You're probably thinking, how many times do I have to reject this guy? Can't he take a hint?' I shook my head. 'But somehow I don't even care. I see you in your red dress, standing by the punch table, and something in me wants to keep trying. I think, she is a person worth knowing.
Gabrielle Zevin
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It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as ehi-passika, inviting you to 'come and see', but not to come and believe.
Walpola Rahula
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Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
Lao Tzu
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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.
Plato
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The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.
C. S. Lewis
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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.
Octavio Paz
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All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.
Paul Auster
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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.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
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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.
Aristotle
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There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.
Confucius
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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.
Varg Vikernes Burzum
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Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness.
Lao Tzu
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I'd rather be in this wheelchair knowing God than on my feet without him.
Joni Eareckson Tada
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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.
C. S. Lewis
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The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.
William Irwin Thompson
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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.
Angela Johnson