Knowing Quotes

• She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Women
  • She
  • Awkward

• I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Rich
  • Hell
  • Envious

• A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Done
  • Food

• 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.

  

  Olavo de Carvalho
  • Individual
  • Knowing
  • Consciousness

• People in England who do not like gardening are very few, and of the few there are, many do not own to it, knowing that they might just as well own to having been in prison, or got drunk at Buckingham Palace.

  

  E. M. Delafield
  • People
  • Knowing
  • Drunk

• I just don't like the feeling of knowing something that somebody else doesn't.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Feeling
  • Knowing
  • I Don't Like

• Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners.

  

  Gary Marcus
  • Minds
  • Noble
  • Finite

• I have no question: It is enough, I know what fixed the station Of star and cloud. And knowing all, I cry. . . .

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Enough
  • Stars
  • Cry

• From time immemorial men have quenched their thirst with water without knowing anything about its chemical constituents. In like manner we do not need to be instructed in all the mysteries of doctrine, but we do need to receive the Living Water which Jesus Christ will give us and which alone can satisfy our souls.

  

  Sadhu Sundar Singh
  • Time
  • Men
  • Alone

• Knowing constancy, the mind is open. With an open mind, you will be openhearted. Being openhearted you will act royally. Being royal, you will attain the divine. Being divine, you will be at one with the Tao. Being at one with the Tao is eternal. Though the body dies, the Tao will never pass away.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Knowing
  • Royal
  • Tao

• Knowing that you're not alone really does make all the difference in the world.

  

  Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony
  • World
  • Difference
  • Knowing

• God will not place a burden on a man's shoulders knowing that he cannot carry it.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • God
  • Place
  • Knowing

• It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Matter
  • Caring
  • Cares

• The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

  

  Norman Granz
  • Music
  • Jazz
  • Hearing

• Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.

  

  Nami Mun
  • Hope
  • Failure
  • Unknown

• This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the meloncholy time of not knowing. This is what age must learn about: The ABC of dying. The going, yet not going, The loving and leaving, And the unbearable knowing and knowing

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Age
  • Girl

• When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Men
  • Long
  • Knowing

• So many times we come to Jesus in worship and ask Him for things that He already IS and has already done... What a concept to come into worship knowing who we are approaching...the absolute fullness of God, pleased to dwell in this Jesus whom we worship. He's already broken the chains...already seated us with Him...already invited us 'into the glorious'.

  

  Christy Nockels
  • Jesus
  • Broken
  • Chains

• The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.

  

  Rumi
  • Art
  • Ignore
  • What

• I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Afraid
  • Well
  • Mechanical

• A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Man
  • Knowing
  • Truths

• Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Men
  • Study
  • Knowing

• I was doing without for so long, not knowing the things that are normal for musicians. I was getting bookings regardless, people phoning or emailing me direct, and journalists were writing about me anyway.

  

  Stormzy
  • Knowing
  • Musician
  • Normal

• I'm not a control freak in that like I boss everybody around, but like a control freak and like, I like knowing exactly what I get to do that day and having a say.

  

  Finneas
  • Control
  • Say
  • Knowing

1

...

7

8

9

10

11

...

25

previous

next