Knowing Quotes
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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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When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.
Haruki Murakami
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Whoever wants to love is better knowing nothing than too much.
Adrienne von Speyr
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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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The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.
Andrew Loomis
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If I can find out God, then I shall find Him,If none can find Him, then I shall sleep soundly,Knowing how well on earth your love sufficed me, A lamp in darkness.
Sara Teasdale
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O! Where are you going With beards all a-wagging? No knowing, no knowing What brings Mister Baggins, And Balin and Dwalin down into the valley in June ha! ha!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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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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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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What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?
Helen Keller
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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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Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery.
Esther Perel
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So long as human history continues, we will face the perennial challenge of realizing, maintaining and strengthening peace through dialogue, of making dialogue the sure and certain path to peace. We must uphold and proclaim this conviction without cease, whatever coldly knowing smiles or cynical critiques may greet us.
Daisaku Ikeda
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One of the first steps we should take in knowing God’s voice is knowing God’s heart.
Craig S. Keener
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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
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I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
Confucius
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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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Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.
Confucius
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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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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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The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense.
Barack Obama
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Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.
Lao Tzu
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I can't live my life happily knowing you're with someone else. That would kill a part of me. What we have is rare. it's too beautiful to just throw it away.
Nicholas Sparks