Knowing Quotes - page 3

Whoever loves knowing why they love, doesn't love. (Antonio Porchia)
He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.
Antonio Porchia
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Benjamin Disraeli
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
Benjamin Disraeli
If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.
Romeo LeBlanc
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein
We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.
Nelly Sachs
Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.
Frank Wedekind
Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
Jean Piaget
Knowing that you possess a talent is half the battle in mastering it.
Lin Carter
We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop. (Paulo Coelho)
The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a prison and in servitude, and having by accident got its liberty, not being accustomed to search for its food, and not knowing where to conceal itself, easily becomes the prey of the first who seeks to incarcerate it again.
Niccolò Machiavelli
I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.
Vivienne Westwood
I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.
Karen Blixen
Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
Samuel Johnson
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland
If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.
Emil Cioran
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
Georges Bataille
I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.
Neil Gaiman
Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. (John Dryden)
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
George Santayana
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
Oscar Wilde
She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.
David Brin
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
Isaac Asimov