Knowing How Quotes
311 quotes by 269 authors
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Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.
— Hakuin Ekaku
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[Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.
— Hermann Bondi
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Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they…
— Randall Munroe
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I move through my day-to-day life with a sense of appreciation and gratitude that comes from knowing how fortunate I truly am and how unearned…
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
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Knowing how hard it is to collect a fact, you understand why most people want to have some fun analyzing it.
— Jesse L. Greenstein
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Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.
— Thomas Couture
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Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore, the…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is far more than…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Because what nobody ever understood is that I, too, wanted to be a somebody. But how do you go through life wanting to be a…
— Debbi Fields
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I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed…
— Jonathan Sacks
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We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
— Dora Russell
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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without…
— Luigi Pirandello
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Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.
— Timothy Dalton
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I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth…
— Paul Newman
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Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It…
— Renzo Piano
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But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it…
— John Lanchester
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I love you without knowing how, why, or even from where
— Patch Adams
Who Wrote These Knowing How Quotes
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