Knowing Quotes

5282 quotes by 3132 authors

I believe in the resonance and staying power of quiet photographs. These photographs required a certain seeing, but few special techniques, and no tricks. Something… — William Albert Allard
Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative. — Gloria Steinem
The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day... — Donald Barthelme
Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so. — Edward Abbey
In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood. — Edward Abbey
Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing Mr. Currie or… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early… — Thomas Paine
What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up? — Terry Pratchett
I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I… — Laura Marling
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow… — John Quincy Adams
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement.… — B.F. Skinner
I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then… — Moe Howard
Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of… — Olavo de Carvalho
One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says. — Jacques Derrida
What art makes us see, and therefore gives to us in the form of 'seeing', 'perceiving' and 'feeling' (which is not the form of knowing,)… — Louis Althusser
Nietzsche's break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple. — Gilles Deleuze
The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail;… — Ivan Turgenev
I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll. — Kurt Cobain
Every song I ever wrote, I wrote to be heard. So, if I was given a choice that 50 years from now I could either… — Ian MacKaye
Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes . . . he balances between the… — Vaclav Havel

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