Knowing Quotes

5282 quotes by 3132 authors

Without knowing it, we utilize hundreds of products each day that owe their origin to wild animals and plants. Indeed our welfare is intimately tied… — Norman Myers
Your life is a learning process - you can only become wiser from learning. Sometimes you might have to attract making a painful mistake to… — Rhonda Byrne
This thing with everyone knowing you, it's weird, because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you… — Robert Pattinson
Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect… — Mahatma Gandhi
I do not mind having imaginary conversations with animals who are part of my life. The comfort of talking to one at a time of… — Derek Tangye
What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority… — E L Doctorow
I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the… — George Orwell
The great art of writing is knowing when to stop. — Josh Billings
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. — Georges Bernanos
Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck. — Bobby Fischer
Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that… — Edward Weston
Everything went together perfectly, and this is what I mean by knowing. I didn't have to analyze anything. I just recognized what was in front… — Wynn Bullock
If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a… — Howard Gardner
Wilderness is an anchor to windward. Knowing it is there, we can also know that we are still a rich nation, tending our resources as… — Unknown Author
The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed… — Jonathan Sacks
Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing. — Abraham Maslow
Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others… — Mother Teresa
I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now remains to comfort… — John Selden
Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by work. It is… — Swami Vivekananda
In order to deal with the chaos that exists in the world today, you need some grounding. That grounding best comes from knowing who you… — Michael Ray

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