Knowing Quotes

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Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. — James Russell Lowell
Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. — Savielly Tartakower
Our duty, privilege, and security are in believing, not in knowing; in trusting God, and not our own understanding. They are to be pitied who… — Charles Hodge
I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love. — Joy Harjo
Humility is knowing that you can get an answer from anybody: be it a child, another person, or nature. — Tariq Ramadan
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very theory of these… — Antonio Gramsci
The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself'as a product of the historical processes to date,… — Antonio Gramsci
And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act. — Rabindranath Tagore
If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing. — Emile M. Cioran
You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on, — Leon Panetta
Knowing many things doesn't teach insight. — Heraclitus
I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed — Gavrilo Princip
You can replace houses. You can't replace people. I mean, it's left me speechless. I was talking to P.J. (Brown) about it. When the storm… — Chris Paul
The brain, knowing that a person can't live forever in this world, rationalizes a future, or other-dimensional, world in which immortality is possible. In other… — Philip Jose Farmer
When you know that something's going to happen, you'll start trying to see signs of its approach in just about everything. Always try to remember… — David Eddings
When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without… — Guillaume Apollinaire
If you've got somebody's aspects in your experience that you don't like, there's only one reason they're there. You keep evoking them with your attention… — Esther Hicks
People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust, delicate, muscular. This… — Anna Quindlen
It is not about knowing, but about living. — Victor Manuel Rivera

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