Not Knowing Quotes

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

Inspiration pushes me out of my tight intellectual comfort zone and into humility, the wonderous state of not knowing. From this place of zero, limitless possibilities seem to arise.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.

I don't need to try to push everyone out of the way and say, "This is how you do it. I actually like not knowing. I trust every lead.

Don't look down on them for looking down on us. Look at them, instead, as friends we don't know yet and who don't yet know what they are missing in not knowing us.

Running away was easy; not knowing what to do next was the hard part.

Never ask a woman why she's angry at you. She will either get angrier at you for not knowing, or she'll tell you. Both ways, you lose.

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

Can you question who you are? And are you comfortable with not knowing?

Theres a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.

Some people do want to stand on the rooftop and scream out their story. Others are cowering in the corner, or sitting with a blank face in class, and not knowing how to tell their story.

When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.

Knowing is knowing that knowing is not knowing.

I've never made an excuse of not knowing my father, because I've had great people in my life.

One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what you want.

I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.

I always get carried away when I'm kissing. I just go nuts! Walking away after it is the strangest moment for me. It's embarrassing - not knowing what to say to each other.

I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

You don't need to know who I'm dating. You don't need to know what I'm doing. I'm fine with everybody not knowing that.

I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.

We all start not knowing what to do.

Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.

I'm always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way.

Not knowing where your food comes from is a primary form of alienation.