Knowing Quotes
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Surprisingly, I came closer to really knowing myself, not because I feared death, because we were always aware of it, but rather because I was always challenging myself about what had led me there and about how strong my commitment really was.
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We are surrounded by pictures; we have an abundance of theories about them, but it doesn't seem to do us any good. Knowing what pictures are doing, understanding them, doesn't seem necessarily to give us power over them.
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Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.
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There's just something you can relate to immediately, even without knowing a woman. It's an inherent thing, an inherent connection. I'm really appreciating it and valuing that.
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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.
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There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.
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And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing worth mentioning about the subjects he represents, and that art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously.
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Whoever wants to love is better knowing nothing than too much.
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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.
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I just love learning about the way people used to live their lives, and I think what also ties into that is psychology, because I like knowing why people do certain things.
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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.
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How could she go on without him? And, at the same time, how could she go on knowing that every moment of their time together had meant so little to him
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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
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You can't make good decisions without knowing the business.
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Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.
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How do you get motivated? By knowing your worth. Americans do not know how worthy they are. You deserve to be healthy, but a lot of times, people have, as childs been told - as a children been told that they're no good, that they're never going to be anything else.
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Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.
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One of the first steps we should take in knowing God’s voice is knowing God’s heart.
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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
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I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.
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Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former.
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I do not know its name. I call it the Way. For the lack of better words I call it great.
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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.
