Knowing Quotes
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Your inner knowing is your only true compass.
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Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall dispair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.
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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.
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I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.
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Knowing what I now know I would never have done anything so fatuous; but then I never would have known what I know now had I not.
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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.
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What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.
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Some things, it's very useful to begin without knowing fully where you're going.
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Swag is not about what you want people to think about you, its already knowing what they think about you.
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Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.
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If you don't believe your general, you're not going to go into battle knowing you're going to die.
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Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.
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The answers we seek aren't always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.
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I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.
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The shape the words end up taking are themselves the meaning of the words, they are retrospectively what we meant to say. There's no way of knowing this until you register it in visible form. But the other side of this is that you do have some idea of where you are going.
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Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery.
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Some nights, alone, he thinks of her, and some nights, alone, she thinks of him. Some night these thoughts, separated by miles and time zones, occur at the same objective moment, and Ray and Mirabelle are connected without ever knowing it.
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I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.
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One of the first steps we should take in knowing God’s voice is knowing God’s heart.
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... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.
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All knowing that goes beyond the immediate experience of the moment is a matter of faith.
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Of all the virtues related to intellectual functioning, the most passive is the virtue of knowing the right answer. Knowing the right answer requires no decisions, carries no risks, and makes no demands. It is automatic. It is thoughtless
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
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Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something.
