Knowing Quotes

5282 quotes by 3362 authors

Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself. — Michel de Montaigne
Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good. — Alan Cohen
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. — Muhammad Ali
Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place. — James Frey
One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America is a goal… — Jeff Bridges
Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again. — Helen Steiner Rice
Grief is a solitary journey. No one but you knows how great the hurt is. No one but you can know the gaping hole left… — Helen Steiner Rice
Waiting is worse than knowing. Grief rends the heart cleanly, that it may begin to heal; waiting shreds the spirit. — Morgan Llywelyn
No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know for sure how many species… — E. O. Wilson
Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing up means gaining… — Judith Viorst
Good-Bye is an easy word to say but try saying it to a friend. If I never knew you, I'd be safe, but half as… — Pocahontas
Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook. — William Arthur Ward
The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have suffered not only… — Cesar Chavez
Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be. — George Santayana
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why. — William Hazlitt
The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful. — Oscar Wilde
Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing… — Abraham Lincoln
O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do. — William Shakespeare

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