Knowing Quotes

• 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

• How could she go on without him? And, at the same time, how could she go on knowing that every moment of their time together had meant so little to him

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Together
  • Moments
  • Knowing

• The very fact that a holy, eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, merciful, fair, and just God loves you and me is nothing short of astonishing.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Powerful
  • Facts
  • Holy

• 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 want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Joy
  • Battle
  • Knowing

• 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.

  

  Unita Zelma Blackwell
  • Justice
  • Ideas
  • Keep

• 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.

  

  Scott Ellis
  • Brother
  • Gone
  • Could

• Our street corners keep secrets, and our road signs only suggest, never deciding for us, never knowing if the destination to which they lead, is where we truely belong. Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will some day end, but that most of us just live to follow directions, and many times we end up totally lost.

  

  Alex Gaskarth All Time Low
  • Secret
  • Ends
  • Tragedy

• We put a premium on knowing what the other team does. Then we try to take them out of it.

  

  P. J. Carlesimo
  • Team
  • Basketball
  • Knowing

• There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

  

  Confucius
  • Mind
  • Love
  • Learning

• no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed

  

  William Landay
  • Known
  • Possessed
  • Possessing

• Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.

  

  Confucius
  • Knowing
  • Correct
  • Cowardice

• It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as ehi-passika, inviting you to 'come and see', but not to come and believe.

  

  Walpola Rahula
  • Believe
  • Teaching
  • Qualified

• The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Art
  • Strong
  • Sometimes

• It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Picture
  • Knowing
  • Spheres

• Working together is a way of knowing each other better.

  

  Additi Gupta
  • Together
  • Knowing

• 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
  • Life
  • Wanted
  • Decisions

• 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

• What constitutes a state? . . . . . . . Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain. . . . . . . . And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.

  

  William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell
  • Rights
  • Sovereign
  • Thrones

• 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

• If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

  

  Eamon Duffy
  • History
  • Failure
  • Comfort

• I had been virtually a Unitarian (as I still am) but without knowing it. The experience of being among Unitarians who did know what they were, and attached much importance to it, was entirely novel to me, but I soon fell into their ways and found it easy to go forward on their road, the more so because the other roads became closed to me.

  

  Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Road

• 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

• 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.

  

  K. M. Soehnlein
  • Believe
  • She
  • Rubies

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