Knowing Quotes

You must achieve the confidence of knowing that you possess absolute, unbending, unimpeachable integrity. Everyone must know that. Above all else, it is integrity that defines your character.

I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day.

I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys.

When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended.

In short, individual freedom of speech leads to a stronger society. But knowing that principle is not enough. You have to know how to put it to use on the Net.

In stillness, we find our peace. Knowing peace at home, we bring peace into the world.

I'm actually interested and enthusiastic. Even when I walk into a show not knowing much about my guest, I always come away as more of a fan or enthusiast.

Showed good business judgment, knowing that these continued lawsuits would be the untimely death of the gun industry.

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

Inexperienced leaders are quick to lead before knowing anything about the people they intend to lead. But mature leaders listen, learn and then lead.

Depth of feeling and clarity of thought isn’t the same as knowing.

Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.

I get a special joy in knowing people feel comfortable if they see me in Wal-Mart or in a no-frills section trying to get something on a discount.

The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

Faith is the profound knowing that comes before reality confirms it.

I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world

Authenticity and knowing who you are is fundamental to being an effective and long-standing leader.

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.

I want to feel deeply, and whenever I am brokenhearted I emerge more compassionate. I think I allow myself to be brokenhearted more easily, knowing I won't be irrevocably shattered [p. 59]

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

But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing, under the sky's gray arch. Smiling, I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing It is the wind of March.

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.

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

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

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

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

People see what they want to see.

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

When I use the camera, I often feel likeI know part of the people or places I come in contact with.

Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.

I'm just going to go out there knowing my teammates are depending on me to get the job done. I've got to go out and get it done, no letting down.

Having a routine, knowing what to do, gives me a sense of freedom and keeps me from going crazy. It's calming.

To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right and what's wrong.

The anxiety of not knowing what my next gig is keeps me hungry.

I don't have a gardener because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.

Discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it. Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can.

Knowing that I'm not a model and I'm never going to be has relieved me of the pressure of looking good. If you don't establish yourself as McDreamy then you don't have to live up to it.

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.

I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now, that the world was always on the edge of total destruction.

When we love and make loving commitments, we create families and communities within which people can grow and take risks, knowing that hands will be there to catch them should they fall.

I suppose it's knowing when you've come up with an idea that works, when you've got it right, whatever it is.

It is really the mistake of our age. We think it is enough to discover new things, but we don't realize that knowing more demands a cor­responding development of morality.

Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.