Knowing Quotes
5282 quotes by 3132 authors
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It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be turned on its…
— Richard Ford
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By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself…
— William Trevor
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But no matter for that, you can be tolerably happy, perhaps, notwithstanding; but as for guessing how happy I am, or knowing anything about the…
— Ann Radcliffe
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When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you…
— C.S. Lewis
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From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and…
— Carl Hiaasen
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Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing.
— Ellen Langer
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The way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others.
— Robert Jensen
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In communications empathy knowing respect spirituality tolerance understanding. Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.
— Ram Dass
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To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even knowing…
— Gerhard Richter
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The longer my career has gone, the more I seem to score... It's experience and age and knowing where the ball's going to be.
— Michael Owen
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When John Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my South End studio at five o'clock on a May morning in 1916, neither of us had…
— George Grosz
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The point is this: If God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life is…
— William Lane Craig
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The Christian religion, [Pascal] claims, teaches two truths: that there is a God who men are capable of knowing, and that there is an element…
— William Lane Craig
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I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle,
— Francis Chan
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Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are
— Flannery O'Connor
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There are those who ask what authority, what theological qualification, the Council intended to give to its teachings, knowing that it avoided issuing solemn dogmatic…
— Pope Paul VI
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Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there.
— Ken Blanchard
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Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.
— Ken Blanchard
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