Knowing Quotes

Peace visits not the guilty mind.

One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

I've always thought that reviews and knowing how much your fans appreciate or don't like something, that's the sugar coating. I'm trying not to think about those things.

Knowing a lot...is a springboard to creativity.

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

of rhythm is image / of image is knowing / of knowing there is / a construct

Be patient with all that is unsolved in your life. Learn to love the questions themselves, until some distant day, without your knowing, you will have lived into the answers.

We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide his natural activity.

German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost

Knowing what to do is useless without the emotional strength to do what you know.

Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.

The hard part about playing 'chicken' is knowing when to flinch.

We are, all of us, incoherent text, and just knowing that - knowing that no matter how much you say, 'I am this' and part of you is not that - means that you can say it.

The good news is that . . . humans are gifted by the potential for self-awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our circumstance is an invitation to change.

People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.

What counts is knowing who you want to be and asking for it.

I was prepared to get knocked out myself trying to knock him out, because then I could sleep at night knowing that I've given my best.

All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.

There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.

Dogs aren't born knowing what or what not to do; they only learn like children.

In communications empathy knowing respect spirituality tolerance understanding. Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.

Belief is knowing what you believe. Conviction is knowing why you believe it.

While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we did.

The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.

Knowing there is a structure, hidden or felt, to the random gives pleasure.

Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

The best protection against risk is knowing what you are doing.

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimers, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimers.

The best advise is to take it all as if it had been your intention.

For our soul is so preciously loved of him that is highest, that it over-passeth the knowing of all creatures.

Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me.

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

Be not another, if you can be yourself.

I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.

The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are.

I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as we got older, he was my friend.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

If you have a guru, leave him; if you don't have, get one. In other words, keep changing your gurus! Ocean's wisdom comes from knowing many ships and many fishes, many storms and many waves!

Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.

The goal of preparation then is not knowing exactly where you'll go but being confident nonetheless that you'll get there.

Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.