Knowing Quotes
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One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what's good and what's not good.
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When I first got the job, I was told nothing about my character. She's an anthropologist and she's tough, she's a female Indiana Jones. That's what I went into [Lost] knowing.
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Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in our hands, but at leastin our thoughts where we may dispose of them at our whim, which gives us the illusion of power over them.
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The hunger for knowing is what excites me. I get to geek out about editing, be on set, give notes to writers - I love it all.
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Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.
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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.
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If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first.
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We prefer knowing to thinking, because knowing has more immediate value.
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Not only can what others are suffering be a consolation while we are suffering, but even knowing what others suffered long ago can be consoling.
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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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You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
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Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there.
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Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
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The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.
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But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.
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The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've been working on it without really knowing it.
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As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
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Leadership is knowing what to do next, knowing why that's important, and knowing how to bring the appropriate resources to bear on the need at hand.
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Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not that the fault is in their own scanty capability of happiness.
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Wisdom is knowing when to share your wisdom and when to just keep quiet.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
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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.
