Knowing Quotes
-
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.
-
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
-
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.
-
Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant; Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent.
-
For me, performance is about forgetting what I'm wearing. Just putting it on and knowing it's right.
-
My kids will grow up in a house knowing that it's perfectly normal for two men to be in love, it's perfectly normal for two women to be in love. My kids will grow up knowing it's all about love. It doesn't matter who you're with and everyone should have that experience.
-
Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.
-
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.
-
She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life.
-
...sometimes you just want the comfort of knowing that somebody really does care about you (even if they show it in peculiar ways).
-
I was doing without for so long, not knowing the things that are normal for musicians. I was getting bookings regardless, people phoning or emailing me direct, and journalists were writing about me anyway.
-
My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.
-
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.
-
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.
-
One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic
-
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.
-
Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change.
-
Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
-
Doubting pleases me no less than knowing.
-
True wisdom is knowing what you don't know.
-
Being a twin, and knowing if my twin was gone or lost - that's a part of me. There's no way I could be the same person knowing my brother had passed away.
-
All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.
-
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.
-
Rereading places you at the point where it has to go on, knowing it is as good as you can get it up to there. There is always juice somewhere.
