Knowing Quotes

Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing

Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.

It is an indescribable experience knowing that what you are doing will have an impact on the lives... of millions of people.

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

Knowing that "me" is inextricably linked to blackness, [I try to enjoy] the process of expanding beyond the expected boundaries set by existing culture, norms and media.

I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood.

Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go.

Talk about God can become dreary and lackluster if God isn't in you.

I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God - by which I mean accepting all that I don't know.

I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.

Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.

It's only our story that keeps us from knowing that we always have everything we need.

It's just overwhelming just knowing your dream is here in front of you.

We are a way of the universe knowing itself.

How can you live without knowing what your spirit is doing and what your spirit is saying to you?

I grew up knowing that I had the prettiest mother of anyone in my class.

Knowing how to live is not something we have to teach children. Knowing how to live is something we have to be careful not to take away from them.

There's just something you can relate to immediately, even without knowing a woman. It's an inherent thing, an inherent connection. I'm really appreciating it and valuing that.

Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure.

It's still the classic thing to get nice lines, but knowing that your computer model, on your little machine, is on the screen, is priceless. And that doesn't happen too often I don't think.

I sat with my two best friends, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that only two of us would make it out of there alive. Though I did tend to exaggerate.

Names can be a doorway into knowing who a person is, and that is certainly true of God. A study of His names is a study of who He is and will be for you.

All thinking, knowing, perception, space-time, occur in consciousness. You are a non-local consciousness. The world is in you.

Craving security is the cause of insecurity. Freedom is knowing that the only point of arrival is now.

There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs.

If a person does this for just a couple of years and discovers that it just isn't for him, that's okay. At least he can move on knowing that he gave it his best shot.

I grew up knowing [Jack Johnson], surfing with him.

I'm stronger knowing that while Donna Rice could be sold, she could not be bought.

The best relationship student -teacher is in knowing who is right for you and who you are right for.

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.

Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.

Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.

Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them.

Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

Rereading places you at the point where it has to go on, knowing it is as good as you can get it up to there. There is always juice somewhere.

Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.

But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?

I loved competing and winning and also wanted to continue my career for the fans, knowing they were there for me and enjoyed watching me fight.

The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.

Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it.

Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.

Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners.

I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision.

Many soldiers are led to faulty ideas of war by knowing too much about too little.

Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose.