Knowing Quotes

Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.

Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.

[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.

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

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

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

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.

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

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.

Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.

The only failure is not knowing how to be happy."---My Story

A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.

Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.

Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?

The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.

But you can't stop knowing something, can you?

The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.

What use is it that knowledge mounts? It's knowing something good that counts.

We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.

I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

Knowing more about the public effects his work will have, the engineer ought to consider himself an "officer of the court" and keep the general interest always in mind.

You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.

In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.

You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.

She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.

The big problem with literature is people tend to take the dialogue from the book, forgetting that everything that surrounds it is literate, therefore not knowing quite how to put that on screen.

There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together.

Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and this in turn causes us to turn away from life and doubt its benevolence.

Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].

Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.

I think self-confidence doesn’t come so much from knowing you’re great as just knowing who you are.

Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ.

We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.

The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

It's an odd feeling, knowing someone is trying to kill you. On the front line, you learn quickly that if you're in the path of a bullet, you will get hit.

I poke around in the pile, about to settle on some cod chowder, when Peeta holds out a can to me. “Here.” I take it, not knowing what to expect. The label reads LAMB STEW.

the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything)

I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.

If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.

Knowing the truth concerning the deep workings of the evil spirit helps the individual not only to overcome sins but to eliminate unnecessary afflictions as well.

I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie

For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.

To know God is to fear Him. And this fear is to love Him as He deserves to be loved.

To help with knowing if you're good or not, you need a mentor.

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.