Knowing Quotes
5282 quotes by 3132 authors
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The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored…
— Douglas Coupland
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Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life that the steps…
— Charles Evans Hughes
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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more…
— Barbara Cartland
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The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.
— Jacques Ellul
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Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the…
— John Coltrane
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I believe in knowing all you can about the music and the people who made the music. I think it's much more important to know…
— Sonny Sharrock
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If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living
— Henri Poincare
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Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.
— Unknown Author
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About the gods I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist or what they are to look…
— Protagoras
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Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or…
— William H. Gass
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Whatever hinders us from receiving a blessing that God is willing to bestow upon us is not humility, but the mockery of it. A genuine…
— Unknown Author
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Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, and state. Bigger than. Vaster…
— Geneen Roth
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I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how…
— Rebecca Wells
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It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.
— Ally Condie
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Basketball's so much like life: if something's going great, you wait a minute, it will change. If something's going bad, you wait a minute, it…
— Tim Duncan
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Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.
— Gretchen Rubin
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True beauty is knowing who you are and believing in yourself. Happy people know their purpose, have courage to fight for it and strength to…
— Rita Ora
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You have to watch the clock constantly because youre only allowed out of your home for a limited period, and for a busy person, watching…
— Martha Stewart
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The purpose of [a lawsuit] is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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The World Will Break Your Heart. Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing, holding, more fully…
— Mark Doty
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