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.

Beyonce Knowles

Independnce comes from you knowing who you are and you being happy with yourself.

Albert Schweitzer

I must forgive without noise or fuss.

David Levithan

I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

Cormac McCarthy

It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.

Naomi Judd

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.

Jodi Picoult

Maybe knowing where you belong is not equal to knowing who you are.

Flannery O'Connor

Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are

Friedrich Nietzsche

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

Ben Silbermann

What you collect says so much about who you are,

Alan Cohen

What you go through is nothing compared to who you are.

Andy Stanley

It isn't about who is 'for' or 'against' you, it's about who you are for.

LeAnn Rimes

I know myself, and when you start to really know who you are, you don't question it when you read what someone says about you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Become who you are!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Become who you are. Make what only you can make.

Kelly Cutrone

You find out who you are by figuring out who and what you're not

Paulo Coelho

Stop being who you were and become who you are.

Morgan Brittany

You've got to hang on to who you are, what you are. Don't let anyone take it from you.