Knowing Quotes

5282 quotes by 3287 authors

The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's… — James M. Barrie
Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT and knowledge,… — Alan Rufus
It is because we don't know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in… — Aldous Huxley
The spirit of a warrior is not geared to indulging and complaining, nor is it geared to winning or losing. The spirit of a warrior… — Carlos Castaneda
In your training, do not be in a hurry, for it takes a minimum of ten years to master the basics and advance to the… — Morihei Ueshiba
Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream. — Oprah Winfrey
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the… — John Burroughs
The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has been organized into… — John Dewey
We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it… — Blaise Pascal
I called it ignose, not knowing which carbohydrate it was. This name was turned down by my editor. 'God-nose' was not more successful, so in… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat… — Barack Obama
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will… — Maurice Maeterlinck
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed… — Samuel Johnson
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance… — Nikola Tesla
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in diligent… — Charles Sanders Peirce
It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does… — John Steinbeck
It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man. — Charles Sanders Peirce
It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance... — Lewis Thomas
Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the… — Immanuel Kant
Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once experienced the perfect… — Galileo Galilei

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