Knowing Quotes
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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.
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There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
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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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There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.
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All knowing that goes beyond the immediate experience of the moment is a matter of faith.
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Fight death all your days, and die knowing you know nothing.
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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.
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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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Love is the only endeavor in which knowing what you're doing is no help at all.
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Knowing the precies answers is not as crucial as the certainty that the answers do, in fact, exist.
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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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You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail.
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The essence of good business is knowing when to step on a train and when to step off.
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There is something obscure which is complete before heaven and earth arose; tranquil, quiet, standing alone without change, moving without peril. It could be the mother of everything. Not knowing its name, I call it Tao.
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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's something very full in knowing that your partner accepts you as is.
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Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.
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Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.
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As impossible, in fact, as keeping the moon... So I looked down the line at all my friends, knowing I would always remember this. And then I turned my gaze back up to the sky, and put my faith in that moon and its return.
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It's not about knowing the key to success, but knowing how to use it and which doors to open.
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I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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I think it's just having the support of our parents. Knowing that they're going to keep you on the right path and guide you.
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For me, before I go on stage, it all depends. Might be a girl, might be an edible, might be a verse, might be somebody mixing something in my drink without me knowing - hopefully that won't happen tonight.
