Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Castaneda

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

Agnes Varda

I'm myself - knowing I'm doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers. We got along very well without trying to make me look like I'm what I'm not.

Charles de Gaulle

Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

Charles Dickens

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

Charles Dickens

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

Brian Cox

At every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable. None of those big leaps were made with us knowing what was going to happen.

Brian Eno

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

David Allen

At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering.

Charles de Lint

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of -- heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the more obscure abilities of our minds. Nothing that science can't explain away. Wizardry is spells and enchantments. Fairy tales.

Trai Byers

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

David Miliband

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

Eckhart Tolle

When you see around you the human form suffering or dissolving, you have empathy on the human level. You share the suffering because it has to do with the fleetingness of form. But if that is the only level that operates in you, you haven't gone beyond suffering.

Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Brian Tracy

Combine the dual qualities of empathy and ambitionin every sales relationship.

Jane Fonda

Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.

Derrick Bell

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

Daniel Goleman

Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.

Ozzie Guillen

We have to get him ready so he knows how to prepare.

Charlotte Bronte

Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know.

Charles Caleb Colton

He who knows himself knows others.

Charles Dickens

I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.

Brian Eno

You don't have to act as if you know what you're doing

Brian Eno

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

Brent Weeks

When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front of you.

Billy Chamberlain

We know each other so well. We try to open it up, but every time I try to do something, he knows how to stop it.

David Mitchell

We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.