Knowing Quotes
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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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Freedom is knowing who you really are.
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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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Just executing better. Getting into plays that help the offense as a whole, knowing our assignments better and just starting off stronger as you know we've struggled to do at times.
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There is so much to be gained from investing more time in what we eat. Buying fresh ingredients means knowing where your food comes from and what's in it.
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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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There's no greater feeling in the world than doing something you truly love. Knowing how much you've sacrificed, how many times you might have failed, but sticking to it, and the moment when everything comes together is what makes me feel alive.
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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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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 not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
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Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.
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Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.
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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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True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.
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What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.
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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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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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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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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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It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'
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The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.
