Knowing Quotes

If you don't believe your general, you're not going to go into battle knowing you're going to die.

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.

She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it.

We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be?

Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.

Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.

I can look you in the eye and tell you I feel I've tried to solve the problem diplomatically to the max, and would have committed troops both in Afghanistan and Iraq knowing what I know today.

I'm a content person and I'm content knowing that I gave it my all when I was president.

I am comfortable knowing that I put my heart and soul into the presidency.

Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing.

I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.

. . . for the most part the worst instructed, and the least knowing of any of their rank, I ever went amongst.

The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.

The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

For me, at least, studying my subjects first and knowing them personally was essential to taking a good picture.

Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.

Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form.

I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.

Knowing About Victoria Woodhull inspires women to be daring, outrageous and creative.

Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves.

I'm not sure that it's up to me to sum up what I've done with it in the past. I'm not sure there's a way of knowing what we have done that is useful or important.

Truths are a result of knowing yourself.

Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.

There are no guarantees in life, but I believe faith provides all of us with a foundation to live the best lives possible - knowing that there is a higher being who loves us and will never leave us.

One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing.

Love is realizing that they are going to make mistakes but knowing you can't hold it against them.

I couldn't sleep knowing I was going to leave my Miami. It's always going to be my home, but it's not the same.

I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars.

I am responsible for myself. I am exactly who I eventually wanted myself to be, I guess, without consciously knowing what I wanted me to be.

Self-Realisation. Soul recognition. The entering of Soul into the Soul Plane and there beholding Itself as pure Spirit. A state of seeing, knowing, and being.

Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.

the body, seeking truth, sends a signal. But decoding it, interpreting its meaning, and knowing how to proceed from there is another matter entirely.

You said that the mind is like the wind but perhaps it is we who are like the wind Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying.

There is something about street dogs, about rescues; they have this knowing sense about them.

There are few more frustrating things in life than being told something that you already know but cannot admit to knowing.

I didn't want to go to sleep knowing I would just wake up in the morning.

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

We should teach our children to make friends with us, to communicate all their thoughts to us ... by this we find many opportunities of teaching them important truths, almost without knowing.

There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful.

Knowing what to expect next gives children a sense of security.

Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.

Knowing English is important, but for us Venezuelans I think it would also be important to know Portuguese. For that reason, we should evaluate the possibility of it being taught in our schools.

One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.

What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn't lead to wisdom? And what's wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?

The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces.