Knowing Quotes
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I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing. Then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive, one that my pencil will be able to hold without technique.
Paul Klee
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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
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It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.
Immanuel Kant
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Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change.
Albert Einstein
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When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky....They will never be the same again because you cannot be the same once you leave behind who and what you are, you just cannot be the same....Look at them leaving in droves, despite knowing they will be welcomed with restraint in those strange lands because they do not belong.
Elizabeth Zandile Tshele
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I'd like to go out knowing that I helped a few people along the way.
Alex Gaskarth All Time Low
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We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations
Barack Obama
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Prompt to move but firm to wait - knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.
William Wordsworth
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Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.
Aristotle
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Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.
May Sinclair
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So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.
William P. Young
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I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.
Alan Alda
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Boys, as far as England was concerned, were always the hard core. And you just know the guys like it. They want to be you. Some might be attracted to you without knowing it.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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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
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I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
Vladimir Nabokov
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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
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The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
Rumi
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Knowing where you have come from is important in forming an idea of where you want to go.
Alexander Stille
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Courage is knowing that you're beaten and forging ahead anyway.
Zacharia Wahls
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A song or an album is never really done. You can work on it forever, but knowing when to call it a day and knowing when to walk away from it is extremely important.
G-Eazy
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Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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But you can't stop knowing something, can you?
Ellen Ullman
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The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.
Norman Granz