Knowing Quotes

• 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.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Knowing
  • Weakness
  • Soils

• I do not know its name. I call it the Way. For the lack of better words I call it great.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Way
  • Name
  • Knowing

• Fight death all your days, and die knowing you know nothing.

  

  Ardel Wray
  • Death
  • Fight
  • Knowing

• 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.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Love
  • Feelings
  • Eye

• Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.

  

  Bill Bailey
  • Knowing
  • Someone
  • Contentment

• I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket.

  

  Moe Howard
  • Theater
  • Standing
  • Officers

• Knowing and doing are entirely different things.

  

  Roy H. Williams
  • Different
  • Doing
  • Knowing

• Knowing how to keep someone motivated and how to keep a connection are skills humans have learned and evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. A robot can't figure out whether you can do one more push-up, or how to motivate you to actually do it.

  

  Erik Brynjolfsson
  • Knowing
  • Motivated
  • Robots

• 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.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Stage
  • Drink
  • Verse

• 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
  • Self
  • Knowing

• 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.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Change
  • Heaven
  • Tao

• It's all about the hard work, knowing your strengths and weaknesses. You work on what you know you can do best. I have speed.

  

  Caster Semenya
  • Work
  • Speed
  • Weaknesses

• Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

  

  Moliere
  • Knowing
  • Prose

• We prefer knowing to thinking, because knowing has more immediate value.

  

  Neal Gabler
  • Thinking
  • Value
  • Knowing

• 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
  • Problem
  • Ocean
  • Lucky

• 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
  • Choosing
  • Counsel
  • Contriving

• All knowing that goes beyond the immediate experience of the moment is a matter of faith.

  

  Egon Friedell
  • Experience
  • Faith
  • Knowing

• If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Die
  • Never
  • Listen

• Knowing this, we may be able to enhance math training.

  

  Elizabeth Spelke
  • Training
  • Knowing

• I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Stories
  • Knowing
  • Wells

• The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.

  

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull
  • Facts
  • Knowing
  • Perfection

• My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.

  

  Al-Shafi‘i
  • Knowing
  • Miss
  • My Heart

• 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
  • Acting
  • Knowing
  • Cliffs

• There's also really no way of knowing what Donald Trump is going to do - he's been sufficiently vague in his policy positions.

  

  Willie Parker
  • Knowing
  • Position
  • Policy

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