Knowing Quotes
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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
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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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Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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Happiness comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.
Mike Rowe
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All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
Blaise Pascal
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Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for —W. S. Merwin
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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“Well," Isaid finally, knowing he was waiting, “you make me laugh.” He nodded. “And?” “You're pretty good-looking." ""Pretty good-looking? I called you beautiful." "You want to be beautiful?" I asked him. "Are you saying I'm not?"
Sarah Dessen
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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
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We sat looking out at the ocean. There was just so much of it, and it never failed to take my breath away. Looking at the ocean gave me the same sensation I'd get staring at a sky full of stars- that I was small. Like the way a math problem reveals its undeniable truth, I knew when I stared into this sort of endlessness that my life didn't count for much of anything. And knowing that, that I was nothing but a speck, I felt pretty lucky for all that I had.
Dana Reinhardt
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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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Sometimes we take somebody who's been in the trenches and fought the good fight and been steady for granted. Sometimes we act as if never having done something and not knowing what you're doing is a virtue.
Barack Obama
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There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.
Ahmed H. Zewail
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Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.
Plato
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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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You don't need to know who I'm dating. You don't need to know what I'm doing. I'm fine with everybody not knowing that.
Eva Longoria
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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
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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
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What induces a child to learn but his delight in knowing?
Helen Keller
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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.
Richard Simmons
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What is it that drives us outward to the stars above and to the shores below? Is it the security of knowing what's there? Or is it the adventure of finding it?
Chris Hogan
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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.
Aleida Guevara
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Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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.
Plato
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Some things, it's very useful to begin without knowing fully where you're going.
Kate Tempest