Knowing Quotes · Page 102

We're all born into this river without knowing how to swim, And eventually we learn how to keep this water under our…

— Eyedea

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

— Dmitri Mendeleev

Knowing yourself, knowing where you want to get, combining those things gives you the pragmatic steps.

— John Amaechi

Once you know what you're doing and you're confident in knowing the playbook, you can play fast instinctively and you can make…

— Patrick Chung

Nothing is harder than knowing what you want, but knowing that you can't have it.

— Anonymous

For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true…

— Thomas Aquinas

“The most hardest thing in the world is that understanding someone’s mind. Because you cannot get what’s really going on their mind.”

— Salman Aziz

“People don’t like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them.”

— Harper Lee

I was Paul Schrader's assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he's very much about knowing what's going…

— Jonathan Levine

Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and…

— Geneen Roth

Wilderness is an anchor to windward. Knowing it is there, we can also know that we are still a rich nation, tending…

— Clinton Presba Anderson

Say goodbye to a world where you cannot breathe/ To hiding behind unfamiliar skin/ To singing songs never knowing what they mean/…

— Michelle Malone

“What is worth doing and what is not worth doing in this world? What is worth knowing and what is not worth…

— Dada Bhagwan

After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think…

— Douglas Coupland

Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the…

— William Safire

Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered…

— R. Scott Bakker

“When we think that something is going to bring us pleasure, we don't know what's really going to happen. When we think…

— Pema Chödrön

Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make…

— Albert Camus

Judicial activists are nothing short of radicals in robes--contemptuous of the rule of law, subverting the Constitution at will, and using their…

— Anonymous

A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of…

— Kobo Abe

We could become quite satisfied with ourselves because we are sitting in meditation and are endeavoring to practice the spiritual path. Such…

— Ayya Khema

There are so many shocking things. Is it more shocking that there are children sold into slavery in every city in the…

— Gillian Anderson

Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled…

— Dean Koontz

What was love, really? Flowers, chocolate, and poetry? Or was it something else? Was it being able to finish someone's jokes? Was…

— Richelle Mead

If we act like children of God, knowing that he loves us, our lives will be made new, filled with serenity and…

— Pope Francis

Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.

— Karen Marie Moning

The worst is knowing I can't tell anybody what's happening -or what's happened- to me. Not even my mom.

— Lauren Oliver

Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the…

— Benjamin Franklin

True power arises in knowing what you want, knowing what you don't want, expressing it clearly and lovingly without attachment to the…

— Leonard Jacobson

I was lucky. I grew up knowing that hard work and smart work has a greater impact on results than being passionate…

— Mark Cuban

You know the best part? It isn't knowing that your friends have your back. It's knowing that you have your friends' back.

— Matt Buckner

Knowing the precies answers is not as crucial as the certainty that the answers do, in fact, exist.

— Chris Heimerdinger

There are many songs that have become popular and people sing along with it without knowing the meaning of its lyrics.

— Gulzar

“the more aware they become,however vaugely,of ambitions & of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel.”

— C.Wright Mills

The old men ask for more time; the young waste it. And the philosopher simply smiles, knowing there is none there.

— R. S. Thomas

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

— William Irwin Thompson

A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.

— Ajahn Sumedho

If we think of the immune system as a machine, then we are far from even knowing all of its parts.

— Bruce Beutler

“...knowing often felt preferable to not knowing. It provided the illusion of control.”

— Jordan Castillo Price

Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.

— Jaggi Vasudev