Knowing Quotes
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Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.
Neil Postman -
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu
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Knowing where you have come from is important in forming an idea of where you want to go.
Alexander Stille -
Knowing the bright, but clinging to the dark, you become a model to the world.
Lao Tzu -
There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I think it's just having the support of our parents. Knowing that they're going to keep you on the right path and guide you.
P. K. Subban -
So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.
William P. Young -
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
Rumi
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Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what pupils knows or is capable of knowing.
Albert Einstein -
The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.
Mother Teresa -
Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.
William Cavendish -
Sometimes we take somebody who's been in the trenches and fought the good fight and been steady for granted. Sometimes we act as if never having done something and not knowing what you're doing is a virtue.
Barack Obama -
I felt naked. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop. I began to feel the need of fellowship. I wanted to question, wanted to speak, wanted to relate my experience. What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness, to toil and to place himself in danger?
H. G. Wells -
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
George Wald
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When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.
Blaise Pascal -
I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
Confucius -
You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
Erica Jong -
As impossible, in fact, as keeping the moon... So I looked down the line at all my friends, knowing I would always remember this. And then I turned my gaze back up to the sky, and put my faith in that moon and its return.
Sarah Dessen -
You must achieve the confidence of knowing that you possess absolute, unbending, unimpeachable integrity. Everyone must know that. Above all else, it is integrity that defines your character.
Dave Calhoun -
What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.
E. L. Doctorow
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The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.
Norman Granz -
It is surprising that people are snapping photos and stuff and then putting them on the internet. For me, it is like, "Why would you want to do that?" It would be like knowing what your Christmas presents were before Christmas morning.
Michael Shannon -
It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on.
Andrew Bacevich -
Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.
Lao Tzu