Knowing Quotes
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
Plotinus
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Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.
Confucius
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Today I will stop trying to control my relationships. I will participate at a reasonable level and let the other person do the same. I can let go, knowing that the relationship will find its own life-or not-and that I don't have to do all the work, only my share.
Melody Beattie
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Because knowing where we come from allows us to know who we are. Our past is part of us.
We can't outrun our past, no matter how hard we try.
Eric Van Lustbader
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If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs
Achozen
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I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.
Michael Morpurgo
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There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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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
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Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.
Ray Bradbury
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An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.
George Saville
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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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I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.
J. R. R. Tolkien
