Knowing Quotes

When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.

We don't need someone to show us the ropes. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Deep inside us we know the feelings we need to guide us. Our task is to learn to trust our inner knowing.

Courage is knowing that you're beaten and forging ahead anyway.

poets are born knowing the language of angels

I like a lot of old films, I like a lot old music, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that I like the idea of knowing what happens before, so that I can understand it.

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.

I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.

Maybe when you meet the people you are supposed to meet you know it, without knowing it.

Knowing what I now know I would never have done anything so fatuous; but then I never would have known what I know now had I not.

To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.

So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.

Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.

It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

As an actress, there's nothing worse than not knowing your cues.

He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.

Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

Knowing is not thinking. Knowing begins when thinking ceases, having finished its work. Every new knowing is a joy, for it is a new experience of unity.

Living the abundant life is different than knowing about it. It's time to begin practicing the life we were made for.

Enough to know no knowing.

I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

There's a thrill in the midst of the hardship in knowing that I'm making the invisible real. And I'm doing what I want.

Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential.

I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.

A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.

If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.

Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked. It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?

I've grown up knowing that you put as much of your private life out there as you feel comfortable with.

To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.

Our problem is not the lack of knowing; it is the lack of doing. Most people know far more than they think they do

I am a Christian. I know I am a Christian, knowing that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior.

We put a premium on knowing what the other team does. Then we try to take them out of it.

Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If you can know everything about anything, it is not worth knowing.

When you put your hands and mind and heart into the knowing of a thing ... there is no room in you for fear.

I am gentle with myself, knowing that I am doing the best I can with the knowledge and understanding I have

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.

Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace

But how did you come burning down like a wild needle, knowing just where my heart was?

Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.

Knowing where and who are intimately linked.

A good restaurant just makes me giddy. I can go all day with anticipation just knowing where I'm going to eat. Sometimes it's well planned, sometimes it's spontaneous. Either way works.

The way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

Pablo Casals has this simple and sincere attitude of knowing where it's at - of saying, "This is the way it is." If I thought I could carry some of that into my life, I would be happy.

Katie smiled and turned away, knowing it wasn't an illusion or a figment of her imagination. She knew what she saw. She knew what she believed.

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.