Knowing Quotes
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There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me.
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Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.
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For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
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I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
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I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.
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Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history
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Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.
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It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
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Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.
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Things flourish, then each returns to its root. Returning to the root is called stillness: Stillness is called return to life, return to life is called the constant; knowing the constant is called enlightenment.
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Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.
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What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.
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True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.
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Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present - not where we wish we were, or where we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.
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Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.
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And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him Down river.
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This was how I was dealing with everyone and everything lately, taking the good when it came, and the bad the same way, knowing each would pass in its own time.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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It's not about putting a speaker in a chair or putting a TV in a bed. That's not how technology and the home intersect. For me, it's about sensors, about the home knowing where you are.
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I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.
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Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona – his struggles as a human being – that was interesting to me.
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There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.
