Knowing Quotes - page 2

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. (Oprah Winfrey)
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope. View quote
Walter Benjamin
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. View quote
Charles Kettering
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. View quote
William Hazlitt
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering. View quote
Paulo Coelho
But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. View quote
Truman Capote
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed. View quote
Montesquieu
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. View quote
Ezra Pound
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do. (Bruce Lee)
There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you. View quote
Norman Mailer
What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world? View quote
Rocky Marciano
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. View quote
Maya Angelou
It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, you know, knowing you are loved and wanted. View quote
Jayne Mansfield
It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. View quote
James Baldwin
nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. View quote
Oscar Wilde
False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. View quote
Joseph de Maistre
But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing? View quote
Gregory Bateson
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. (Bertrand Russell)
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. View quote
Muhammad Ali
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. View quote
Victor Hugo
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. View quote
Brian Tracy
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe