Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Stephenie Meyer

I ached for the difference between Carlisle and me - that he could touch her so gently, without fear, knowing he would never harm her.

Sophie Kinsella

We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be?

Thomas Haden Church

I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet.

Tim Conway

People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.

Thomas Ligotti

And the worst possible thing we could know — worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms — is that we are nobodies not somebodies, puppets not people.

Woody Allen

Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind.

Woody Allen

Paranoia is knowing all the facts.

William Gibson

The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna. We've been working on it without really knowing it.

Will Durant

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Would it help if I stood around uselessly not knowing what to say?

Sarah Silverman

I always look at myself knowing that I will have a certain degree of cognitive distortion.

Warren G. Bennis

Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.

Warren G. Bennis

Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential.

Tori Amos

Anyone who doesn't belive in Faeries, isn't worth knowing.

Richard Dawkins

I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about what's true, I care about evidence, I care about evidence as the reason for knowing what is true. It is true that I come across rather passionate sometimes and that's because I am passionate about the truth. ... I do get very impatient with humbug, with cant, with fakery, with charlatans.

Robin Hobb

Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.

Robert Nozick

Wisdom is not just knowing fundamental truths, if these are unconnected with the guidance of life or with a perspective on its meaning. If the deep truths physicists describe about the origin and functioning of the universe have little practical import and do not change our picture of the meaning of the universe and our place within it, then knowing them would not count as wisdom.

Robert Collier

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing...

Richard Paul Evans

The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.

Richard Wright

I listened, vaguely knowing now that I had committed some awful wrong that I could not undo, that I had uttered words I could not recall even though I ached to nullify them, kill them, turn back time to the moment before I had talked so that I could have another chance to save myself.

Richelle Mead

I couldn’t help it,” I said, knowing how lame that sounded. It was as bad as Angeline’s “it’s not my fault” mantra.

Richelle Mead

There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor.

Russell Crowe

You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.

Robert Moog

Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science not to use.

Robert Krulwich

The safest place to be is always halfway into your future, without even knowing what it is.