Knowing Quotes
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There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.
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Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.
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Doubting pleases me no less than knowing.
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There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.
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As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.
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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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An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people.
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The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.
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I teach at Georgetown, and I see that the students have so many different interests. The main thing is to match your passion with your knowledge, because you can't just be passionate without knowing the facts, and facts are really boring without passion.
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Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.
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My religion is searching for the truth in life and life in the truth, though knowing that I do not have to find it while I live; my religion is fighting incessantly and tirelessly with the unknown.
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All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.
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O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.
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Whoever wants to love is better knowing nothing than too much.
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A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
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Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.
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I kind of love coming home and being with family and feeling comfortable and knowing where I come from; I kind of like it.
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The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.
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Now, knowing better, we can act better, we can live better, and give the animals, our children and ourselves a true reason for hope and celebration.
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You have to understand that people feel threatened by a writer. It's very curious. He knows something they don't know. He knows how to write, and that's a subtle, disturbing quality he has. Some directors without even knowing it, resent the writer in the same way Bob Hope might resent the fact he ain't funny without twelve guys writing the jokes. The director knows the script he is carrying around on the set every day was written by someone, and that's just not something that all directors easily digest.
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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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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
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I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing it.
