Knowing Quotes

• All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Knowing
  • Room
  • Troubles

• The hunger for knowing is what excites me. I get to geek out about editing, be on set, give notes to writers - I love it all.

  

  Sue Naegle
  • Knowing
  • Hunger
  • Excites

• Dogs aren't born knowing what or what not to do; they only learn like children.

  

  Barbara Woodhouse
  • Children
  • Learn
  • Dogs

• 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
  • Knowing
  • June
  • Valley

• Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.

  

  Richard Scott Bakker
  • Men
  • Fool
  • Ignorance

• I know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next.

  

  Raymond E. Feist
  • Thinking
  • Knowing
  • Exhilarating

• 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
  • Pay
  • Taxes
  • Amount

• An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.

  

  George Saville
  • Man
  • Knows
  • Mankind

• Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for —W. S. Merwin

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Knowing
  • Looking
  • Youth

• 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
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Knowing

• Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Silence
  • Knowing
  • Room

• I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore!

  

  Celia Imrie
  • Next
  • Strive
  • Labour

• I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Difficult
  • Secret
  • Careers

• 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
  • Long
  • May
  • History

• 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
  • World
  • Writing
  • Mind

• We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Should

• I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • Action
  • Knowing
  • Sequence

• And they thought that what had happened before was past and, in order to live quietly, they placed a stone on top of it, and so, without knowing it, they continued it, they were immersed in the things of before, and we kept them inside us, too.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Knowing
  • Inside
  • Immersed

• Knowing is the easy part; saying it out loud is the hard part.

  

  Nicholas Evans
  • Hard
  • Knowing
  • Saying

• 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
  • Alone
  • Joy
  • Decision

• I think playing the way I played, and knowing the game the way I know it, I think I'm going to have a better idea as to what the mindset of each player was.

  

  Chris Pronger
  • Game
  • Way
  • Idea

• You could have all the money in the world, but you have to be smart enough knowing how to spend it. I really try to be on that smart money side. Once you make a serious mistake you can suffer five or six years, and I do my best to avoid serious mistakes.

  

  Mikhail Prokhorov
  • Trying
  • Suffering
  • Mistake

• New Yorkers are nice about giving you street directions; in fact, they seem quite proud of knowing where they are themselves.

  

  Katharine Brush
  • Giving
  • Proud
  • Travel

• 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
  • God
  • Knowing
  • Glorified

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