Knowing Quotes

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

God is intelligence occupied with knowing itself.

Perhaps knowing one place intimately is to have a way of knowing all places.

Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.

The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

Leadership is knowing what to do next, knowing why that's important, and knowing how to bring the appropriate resources to bear on the need at hand.

Patience means knowing it will happen . . . and giving it time to happen.

Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing-sicknes s, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even death--can take that love away.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America is a goal that is literally within our grasp.

Whatever exists at all exists in some amount. To know it thoroughly involves knowing its quantity as well as its quality.

The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things...Things must happen when it is time for them to happen.

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

There is a vast difference between merely knowing about Christ and actually knowing Him-the difference between heaven and hell.

You know how I always believe in the future. Without disorder, the revolution is impossible; knowing that, I did not lose hope, and I do not lose it now.

Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.

Spiritual healing is KNOWING that the body is perfect. Mental healing is effecting a perfect body by visualizing the body as perfect.

Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.

Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing.

Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are.

All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.

Knowing who you really are and dressing the part -- with an air of amused recklessness -- is life affirming for you and life enhancing for other people.

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site.

I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.

It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as ehi-passika, inviting you to 'come and see', but not to come and believe.

You need one hundred percent commitment; you have to be willing to wake up every morning knowing you're going to [practice] eight hours straight.

Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end... and knowing there’s so much worth saving.

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

I know the most important faculty to develop is one for hard, continuous and varied work and living; but the difference between knowing this and doing anything consistent about it is often abysmal.

I know very well that I have no reason to feel aggrieved - I am fully aware of how lucky I am, but knowing it and still being down makes me hate myself all the more.

Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next.

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

I look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: it’s not me.

This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.

Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.

You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.

Knowing we will be with Christ forever far outweighs our burdens today! Keep your eyes on eternity!

I think part of being a good coach is knowing how to extract the best from different people.

At every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable. None of those big leaps were made with us knowing what was going to happen.

Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.

Clarity is essential. Knowing exactly what you want builds your self-confidence immeasurably.

There is a very particular feeling I get when I have the camera in my hand, looking at an actor talk, knowing that what I’m shooting will end up on the screen.