Quotes about knowing
knowing people magic
People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes. Terry Pratchett
knowing verbs problem
So many problems are solved simply by knowing enough verbs. Teresa Nielsen Hayden
knowing guessing
Guessing isn't knowing. Tennessee Williams
knowing people intellectual
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know. Ralph Waldo Emerson
knowing different knowing-what-to-do
Knowing what to do is very, very different than actually doing it. Seth
knowing people age
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. L. Ron Hubbard
knowing people hell
I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell. Leslie Caron
knowing empathy knows
Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing. Leslie Jamison
knowing anxiety horizon
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. Leslie Jamison
knowing joy letters
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. Lady Bird Johnson
knowing perspective priorities
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
knowing television world
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) Neil Postman
knowing thumbs fingers
The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing. Marc Chagall
knowing soul desire
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. Thomas a Kempis
knowing waiting soul
Death - Death can be faced, dealt with, adjusted to, outlived. It's the not knowing that destroys interminably... This being suspended in suspense; waiting - weightless, How does one face the faceless, adjust to nothing? Waiting implies something to wait for. Is there? There is One. One who knows... I rest my soul on that. Ruth Graham
knowing way wot
Never gamble without knowing a back way out. Robert Jordan
knowing people looks
This thing with everyone knowing you, it's weird, because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you more than someone they actually know. I don't really know myself that well. Robert Pattinson
knowing problem humans
Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know. Virginia Satir
knowing
To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right and what's wrong. Tibor Kalman
knowing doors world
Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own. Tibor Fischer
knowing important able
Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing. Sugata Mitra
knowing expectations realizing
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. Sharon Salzberg
knowing self want
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. Natalie Portman
knowing mature sophisticated
Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated. Sophia Loren
knowing action enough
Knowing is not enough! You must take action. Tony Robbins
knowing space silence
I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening, and get some sense, for a moment, that we are full of paradise without knowing it. Thomas Merton
knowing know-it-all knows
The smartest thing is knowing that I don't know it all and that there's more to learn. Tony DiCicco
knowing style culture
I started studying indigenous cultures and I was really inspired by their life styles and the way that they lived. Part of that was knowing how to survive in the wild and knowing how to heal themselves from the plants that grew around them. Shailene Woodley
knowing way body
You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that's your body. Rihanna
knowing would-be obscurity
I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be. Steven Soderbergh
knowing said depends
Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop. Toni Morrison
knowing-everything feelings littles
the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything) Toni Morrison
knowing beloved harder
Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder Toni Morrison