Knowing Quotes

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far. (Jean Cocteau)
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. View quote
Socrates
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. View quote
William James
The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Theology --An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. View quote
Gore Vidal
To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived. View quote
Richard Bach
Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. (Warren Buffett)
I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own. View quote
Margaret Fuller
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. View quote
Jane Austen
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. View quote
Scott Adams
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. View quote
Herodotus
I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it. View quote
Rosalia de Castro
Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it. View quote
David Starr Jordan
Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after. (Henry David Thoreau)
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can. View quote
Lucille Ball
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with. View quote
Michael Jackson
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. View quote
Will Cuppy
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. View quote
Rosa Parks