Knowing Quotes
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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.
Lao Tzu -
Here I stand, hobbled in a sack of doom, determined to tear out of it, knowing that I will.
Kate Simon
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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 -
Most cannot lead—the idea terrifies them. Yet for those like you and me, there is no greater joy than knowing there is no help coming. The decision is ours alone.
Conn Iggulden -
When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.
John Milton -
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Wisdom consists in knowing what not to want as well as what to want.
Napoleon Hill -
Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff; ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE.
Josh Billings
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With documentaries, you go in with an open-mind but knowing what you want.
Chris Metzler -
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.
Blaise Pascal -
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
Bill Crawford -
I used to have very good sixth sense - knowing exactly where someone was without seeing them.
Chris Pronger -
I held her close to me with my eyes closed, wonering if anything in my life had ever been this perfect and knowing at the same time that it hadn't. I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.
Nicholas Sparks -
I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better.
Nicholas Haslam
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My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.
Al-Shafi‘i -
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.
William J. Mitchell -
I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.
Steve Buscemi -
It's just overwhelming just knowing your dream is here in front of you.
Cappie Pondexter -
Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
William Arthur Ward -
Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.
Lao Tzu
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Knowing the precies answers is not as crucial as the certainty that the answers do, in fact, exist.
Chris Heimerdinger -
Have a policy of pre-emptive forgiveness. Refuse to get offended by petty things. Make a decision early on to cut the other person some slack in everyday life. Then you can take comfort in knowing they'll do it for you, as well. Accepting each other, flaws and all, is what love is all about.
Gaelen Foley -
There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.
Alison Croggon -
The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've been working on it without really knowing it.
William Gibson