Knowing Quotes

Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public.

I think the American public has gone from really almost white-hot anger in 2010 to an anxiety knowing their government needs to work.

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

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

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

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

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.

Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

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.

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.

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

It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.

Well, I don’t know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I’m no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.

Small facts lead to great knowing.

If human love hath power to penetrate the veil--and hath it not?--then there are yet living here a few who have the blessedness of knowing that an angel loves them.

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.

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.

My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.

It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting

Frequently a big advantage can be gained by knowing how to give in at the right moment.

Successful people take big risks knowing that they might fall hard. But, they might succeed more than they ever dreamed, too.

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.

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

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

The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.

Wisdom consists in knowing what not to want as well as what to want.

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

The most fun in breaking a rule is in knowing what rule you're breaking.

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily. Live enthusiastically, knowing that God does not dwell in gloom and melancholy, but in light and love.

...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.

No one can desire the love of God without first knowing human love.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing way, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools.

Men, for the most part, like to pursue women. We like not knowing if we can catch you. We feel rewarded when we do. Especially when the chase is a long one.

Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality...man is fundamentally mythic...His real health depends upon his knowing and living his metaphysical totality.

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

People see what they want to see.

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.

For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.

The first secret of getting what you want is knowing what you want.

O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.

Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.