Knowing Quotes · Page 111

There is a difference between knowing what is true and knowing why it is true

— Edward Witten

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

— Frank Wedekind

I met too frankly preposterous, if it weren't for their banal evil, politicians and pastors who told knowing lies about the evils…

— Stephen Fry

We've lived through a time in which people have felt they could forge their own future and make a better world. We…

— Peter Yarrow

They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what…

— Alan Watts

The thing I get out of it is the connection. I remember going to shows as a kid and meeting eyes with…

— Joan Jett

For of all hard things to bear and grin, / The hardest is knowing you're taken in.

— Phoebe Cary

The key to encouragement is in knowing what gives people courage; what spurs them on to action.

— John C. Maxwell

Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.

— Mason Cooley

We search for everything we believe we don't have, not knowing that everything we are looking for is already inside us. We…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

There are few more frustrating things in life than being told something that you already know but cannot admit to knowing.

— Helen Cresswell

Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.

— George S. Patton

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

Something has spoken to me in the night...and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: "[Death is] to…

— Thomas Wolfe

Nothing—absolutely nothing—in this life gives you more satisfaction than knowing you’re on the road to success and achievement. And nothing stands as…

— David J

I think musicians are perfect at knowing how to get the best out of other musicians. I can really relate to that…

— Adria Petty

A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten…

— Ray Bradbury

“Knowing, or thinking we know, can lead to many commotions. What we believe, we know, is maybe a mere illusion. Crucial elements…

— Erik Pevernagie

Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need…

— Mother Teresa

It's not really about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right…

— Satya Nadella

They are young and life has no limits. Nothing is impossible, nothing beyond doing or knowing. The world is theirs and everything…

— Stephen R. Lawhead

There was no way I could write a paper knowing that Andy Warhol and Boy George were partying at Danceteria.

— Michael Alig

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself.

— Kevyn Aucoin

When you appreciate the power of nature, knowing the rhythm of any situation, you will be able to hit the enemy naturally…

— Miyamoto Musashi

Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of…

— James Merrill

“... the divine knowing - what the Father knows, and what the Word says in response to that knowing, and what the…

— Robert Farrar Capon

Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.

— Orson Scott Card

The last word always belongs to the audience. ... Yes, that is a most powerful feeling. One that is worth savouring on…

— Ruth Cracknell

We are surrounded by pictures; we have an abundance of theories about them, but it doesn't seem to do us any good.…

— William J. Mitchell

One of the biggest challenges in my job is letting go of the movie once you go home at night, and knowing…

— Amber Heard

But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?

— Fernando Pessoa

It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly…

— John O'Donohue

Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past.

— Zig Ziglar

Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them.…

— Susan Orlean

Life isn't something you can give an answer to today. You should enjoy the process of waiting, the process of becoming what…

— Milton H. Erickson

Spiritual healing is KNOWING that the body is perfect. Mental healing is effecting a perfect body by visualizing the body as perfect.

— Lester Levenson

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live?…

— Chuck Palahniuk

In adopting the republican form of government, I not only took it as a man does his wife, for better, for worse,…

— Gouverneur Morris

I like to think - knowing that it's an enabling fiction - of those moments as fragments from a world to come,…

— Ben Lerner

I think knowing where you can generally fit is important, but the fun thing about being an actor is sometimes stretching beyond…

— Laura Osnes