Knowing Why Quotes

50 quotes by 47 authors

Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. — Albert Einstein
We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God… — Fred Melamed
Literally, no man ever sees himself as others see him. No photograph or reflection ever gives us the same slant on ourselves that others see.… — Richard L. Evans
Darwinism's atheism prevents science from knowing why things are as they are. Without God there is no answer to the why for anything. — Dave Hunt
Hellâ€™s waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why youâ€™re here. — Frank Miller
Everybody hates dependence, and that's why couples are continuously fighting, not knowing why they are fighting. They have to meditate over it, they have to… — Rajneesh
War is a farmerâ€™s son from Kansas trying to kill a factory workerâ€™s son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why. — Randall Wallace
An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or… — Fernando Botero
There is a difference between knowing what is true and knowing why it is true — Edward Witten
Michaelangelo said the mirror is our greatest teacher. My use of mirrors in my work helps me uncover psychic layers. Often, the face is distorted… — Joyce Tenneson
Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die… — Ingrid Newkirk
Some people are drawn to meditation without knowing why. Their inner being realizes that they've totally fouled up their life so far, and now it's… — Frederick Lenz
I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you… — Barry Zito
At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how… — Ama Ata Aidoo
Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by… — Stephen Chbosky
If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel
People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake. — William Hazlitt
To paraphrase the philosopher Nietzsche, he who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how. I've found that 20 percent of any change… — Tony Robbins
Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why. — Henry Van Dyke
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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