Knowing Quotes
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That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.
C. S. Lewis -
Nothing ruins a good thing quite like knowing you share your opinions with mindless little tits.
Yahtzee Croshaw
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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
Sophocles -
Knowing a deep thing well, which is what science asks of its practitioners, is an empowerment that is very profound. It's a liberation.
Ann Druyan -
I've always loved life, and I've never known what's ahead. I love not knowing what might be round the corner. I love serendipity.
Lesley Lawson -
We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.
Albert Einstein -
I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.
Francis Chan -
I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.
Ziggy Marley
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The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
Rabindranath Tagore -
These people looked Japanese, were originally Japanese, were numerous. We had no way of knowing to what extent they had been infiltrated. To their great credit, it seems not to have been very much at all. But I can understand why. And I rather respect Eleanor for standing out against the tide at that point. But it certainly was a tide. And I'm not going to say it was unjustified.
William A. Rusher -
That which is desirable on its own account and for the sake of knowing it is more of the nature of wisdom than that which is desirable on account of its results.
Aristotle -
Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged!
Anthony Trollope -
We're all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and those who can't. Well, there's also velvet rope we have inside of us, keeping others from knowing our feelings.
Janet Jackson -
Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.
Confucius
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And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.
Plato -
The Spirit which is within you is a collective being and once you are awakened into the light of Spirit, you become a collective being. That means, on your finger tips you can feel the centers of others also as you can feel yourself. By knowing yourself you know the self knowledge, the inner self knowledge and by knowing others you are in collective consciousness.
Nirmala Srivastava -
For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.
Thomas Aquinas -
Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down.
J. C. Ryle -
Sometimes, she reflected, she dressed for courage, sometimes for success, and sometimes for the consolation of knowing that whatever else went wrong, at least she liked her clothes.
Emma Bull -
But you can't stop knowing something, can you?
Ellen Ullman
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Death is the perfect knowing.
Marjorie Holmes -
Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for
W. S. Merwin -
It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.
Immanuel Kant -
Why was life stacked in such a way that she’d had to make binding decisions—where to live, whom to marry, whether to subjugate her own aspirations to those of Sam—before she had any way of knowing what she wanted? It seemed a cruel stroke that a willingness to wrestle with those questions came only after youth had been expended.
Craig Lancaster