Knowing Quotes
5282 quotes by 3287 authors
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[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.
— Hermann Bondi
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Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.
— Aristotle
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[Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the…
— Francis Collins
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To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from…
— Bruce Jenner
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My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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I am not an angry girl, but it seems I've got everyone fooled. Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk…
— Ani DiFranco
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I was this young boy and I saw this man with his hands round my sister's neck, I was just standing there with her two…
— Alexander McQueen
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First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action of the will.…
— Swami Vivekananda
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So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious. Those who…
— Sun Tzu
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Knowing what to do and not doing it is the same as not knowing what to do.
— Robin Sharma
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Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they…
— Randall Munroe
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My daughters have grown up knowing all about my kidnapping and the case and what happened.
— Patty Hearst
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You know, my daughters have been through their entire lives and knowing about my case.
— Patty Hearst
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Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot…
— Bell Hooks
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for…
— Alan Bennett
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O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all…
— William Shakespeare
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Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing…
— Mark Twain
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All political power, all power as such, is stupid. Don't rush after it, don't be ambitious, because all ambition collects dust and only dust. If…
— Rajneesh
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Remember, until you become a buddha you have wasted your life. Buddhahood is your flowering, your fragrance. A tree is fulfilled when it blooms, and…
— Rajneesh
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