Without Knowing Quotes

393 quotes by 319 authors

To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is… — Mencius
Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a… — Harry Frankfurt
Like MoliÃ¨re's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being aware… — Ernest Nagel
Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call… — Agatha Christie
I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way. — Kazuo Ishiguro
Without knowing it, we utilize hundreds of products each day that owe their origin to wild animals and plants. Indeed our welfare is intimately tied… — Norman Myers
I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the… — George Orwell
Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world — Satish Kumar
There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that… — James Madison
A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything… — Virginia Woolf
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
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into… — Beryl Markham
There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration… — Camille Paglia
I could trade without knowing the name of the market. — Richard Dennis
I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without… — Cindy Sherman
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
Settle back is to settle without knowing. — Bruce Springsteen
Just as hundreds of brushstrokes comprised a finished canvas, people were made up of a lifetime of experiences, both good and bad. And without knowing… — Tamera Alexander
You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation. — Johnnetta B. Cole
I love you without knowing how, why, or even from where — Patch Adams

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