Knowing Quotes
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Knowing you’re worthless doesn’t give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.
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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.
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Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.
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Being a twin, and knowing if my twin was gone or lost - that's a part of me. There's no way I could be the same person knowing my brother had passed away.
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Knowing that "me" is inextricably linked to blackness, [I try to enjoy] the process of expanding beyond the expected boundaries set by existing culture, norms and media.
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We put a premium on knowing what the other team does. Then we try to take them out of it.
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Change depends on people knowing the truth. Change depends on people speaking that truth out loud. That's what movements do. Movements educate people to the truth. They pass along information and ideas that many others do not know, and they cause them to ask questions, to challenge their own long-held beliefs. . . . Movements are the way ordinary people get more freedom and justice. Movements are how we keep a check on power and those who abuse it.
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... the major rule in the American belief system - that anyone can do anything ... is a lie that we have perpetuated, and it fosters mediocrity. Knowing what you're good at and doing even more of it creates excellence.
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When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.
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Our perfection certainly consists in knowing God and ourselves.
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The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail; a system is like the tail of truth, but truth is like a lizard; it leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away knowing full well that it will grow a new one in a twinkling.
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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.
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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.
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...sometimes you just want the comfort of knowing that somebody really does care about you (even if they show it in peculiar ways).
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Showed good business judgment, knowing that these continued lawsuits would be the untimely death of the gun industry.
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. . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable and manageable. But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable. There is, however, this consolation: She who lets go of the knife will find the Tao at her fingertips.
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If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.
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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
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The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
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Knowing that we'd meet Ruby at the point where she stopped believing, I knew I was also going to have to deal with what you do with your capacity for belief if you don't have an object for your belief.
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Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing.
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That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.
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I just don't like the feeling of knowing something that somebody else doesn't.
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There are things we want, and things we may have.... Sanity lies in knowing the difference.
