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Knowing Quotes by Alan Watts
- The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond…
- The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently…
- Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to…
- They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made…
- Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.
- Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to…
More Knowing Quotes
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
- Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool.… — Margaret Atwood
- Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put… — Kevyn Aucoin
- God is best known in not knowing him. — Saint Augustine
- A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. — Jane Austen
- Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn. — Burt Bacharach
- The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. — Gaston Bachelard