Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Scarlett Johansson

I just don't like the feeling of knowing something that somebody else doesn't.

Seth

Knowing what to do is very, very different than actually doing it.

L. Ron Hubbard

The ultimate freedom depends on knowing the ultimate Truth. Truth is not what people say it is, it is what it is. And Truth, quite remarkably, sets one free, just like philosophers have said down the ages.

Leslie Caron

I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.

Leslie Jamison

Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.

Leslie Jamison

I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.

Lady Bird Johnson

Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.

Neil Postman

The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was to be acquired and how the world was to be understood. "Knowing" the facts took on a new meaning, for it did not imply that one understood implications, background, or connections. Telegraphic discourse permitted no time for historical perspectives and gave no priority to the qualitative. To the telegraph, intelligence meant knowing of lots of things, not knowing about them.

Neil Postman

Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged. It is not merely that on the television screen entertainment is the metaphor for all discourse. It is that off the screen the same metaphor prevails. (92)

Viktor E. Frankl

I try to do everything as soon as possible, and not at the last moment. This ensures that, when I am overburdened with work, I will not face the added pressure of knowing that something is still to be done.

Vanna Bonta

The great thing about knowing you're wrong is the moment you realize it, you're right.

Susie Bright

Everyone wants to be a dyke now; everyone craves our freedom, guts, and knowing looks.

Suzanne Collins

How much better my life has been for knowing him. For loving him, even if it's only in the limited way that I can manage. But I never get the chance.

Suzanne Collins

I poke around in the pile, about to settle on some cod chowder, when Peeta holds out a can to me. “Here.” I take it, not knowing what to expect. The label reads LAMB STEW.

Taryn Simon

I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy.

Sophie Kinsella

Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.

Stephen King

You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn’t question knowing.

Stephen King

...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

Stedman Graham

All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive.

Starhawk

Wisdom and knowledge can best be understood together. Knowledge is learning, the power of the mind to understand and describe the universe. Wisdom is knowing how to apply knowledge and how not to apply it. Knowledge is knowing what to say; wisdom is knowing whether or not to say it. Knowledge gives answers; wisdom asks questions. Knowledge can be taught, wisdom grows from experience.

Starhawk

Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing.

Tea Obreht

Suddenness," he says. " You do not prepare, you do not explain, you do not apologize. Suddenly, you go. And with you, you take all contemplation, all consideration of your own departure. All the suffering that would have come from knowing comes after you are gone, and you are not a part of it.

Taylor Swift

Fearless is knowing that someday things will change.

Stanley Kubrick

Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.

Stephenie Meyer

It's not a good feeling--knowing that you profoundly deserve the title of monster. It's better to be kind than to feel guilty.

Stephenie Meyer

That’s the funny thing about knowing you can’t have something. It makes you desperate. -Leah

Marc Chagall

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.

Thomas a Kempis

Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.

Sharon Salzberg

Loving ourselves opens us to truly knowing ourselves as part of the matrix of existence, inextricably connected to the boundlessness of life... when we see that we are far bigger than the person that is delineated by family or cultural expectations, we realize we are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine.

Natalie Portman

I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure: Knowing you are being your fullest self. Being your fullest self is a lot of work.

Sophia Loren

Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.

Tony Robbins

Knowing is not enough! You must take action.