Knowing Quotes
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If I give a student one-fourth of what he should know, I expect him to get the other three-fourths himself, otherwise I do not want him as a student.
Confucius
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Knowing the bright, but clinging to the dark, you become a model to the world.
Lao Tzu
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Dogs aren't born knowing what or what not to do; they only learn like children.
Barbara Woodhouse
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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I couldn't sleep knowing I was going to leave my Miami. It's always going to be my home, but it's not the same.
Hanley Ramirez
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You can't get a leopard to change his spots. In fact, now that I come to think of it, you can't really get a leopard to appreciate the notion that it has spots. You can explain it carefully to the leopard, but it will just sit there looking at you, knowing that you are made of meat. After a while it will perhaps kill you.
Geoffrey K. Pullum
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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
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Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.
Lady Bird Johnson
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Success is knowing what you're doing, loving what you're doing, and believing what you're doing.
Napoleon Hill
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For from the error of not knowing, or understanding, what sin is, there necessarily arises another error, that people cannot know or understand what grace is.
Martin Luther
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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.
Will Tuttle
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But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.
Lord Byron
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You appear to know more of my private history than I have the pleasure of knowing of yours. Pray, sir, may I—but, bless me! are you unwell?” I asked this in some alarm, because the little man was rolling about in his seat, holding his sides, and growing very red in the face.
R. M. Ballantyne
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The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.
Karen White
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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
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So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves.
Blaise Pascal
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Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery.
Esther Perel
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New Yorkers are nice about giving you street directions; in fact, they seem quite proud of knowing where they are themselves.
Katharine Brush
