Top 100 Knowing How Quotes
#1. People are educated into the fact that as a people we stand a better chance of knowing how to work the law if we know the history of the law and the history of our people's relationship with it.
Immortal Technique
#2. I think that's one of the biggest signs a person has matured - knowing how to appreciate things that matter to others, even if they don't matter very much to you.
Colleen Hoover
#3. That is to say, things have a way of getting worse and worse all the time, until in the end they get so bad that we lack even the means of knowing how bad they really are.
Robert Silverberg
#4. The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
William Hazlitt
#5. Looking back ten years, knowing how I feel today, I appreciate the now because in ten years I will look back and remember these days as the good days.
Celeste Cooper
#6. Everything depends on knowing how much," she said, and "Good is knowing when to stop.
Toni Morrison
#7. I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.
Tucker Carlson
#8. The secret of Zen masters is discovering the path of return to such moments, and knowing how to pave the way for such moments to arise. The masters know how to use the dazzling light of those moments to illuminate the journey of return, the journey that begins from nowhere and has no destination.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#9. Are you so scared people will hate you?"
"What?" I stare at him, not knowing how
to react. "What are you talking about?"
He gestures at the phone. "Your emails are
like one big cry. Kiss, kiss, hug, hug, please
like me, please like me!
Sophie Kinsella
#10. Why do people do that to gifted people? Is it jealousy? Fear? Both, maybe. But this kid had the advantage of knowing how good he was.
Stephen King
#11. The secret to good cooking is knowing how to follow the recipe till you feel comfortable,
Natalie Baszile
#12. Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work - and what to do when they break.
Barbara Delinsky
#13. Innovation is the lifeblood of an organization. Knowing how to lead and work with creative people requires knowledge and action that often goes against the typical organizational structure. Protect unusual people from bureaucracy and legalism typical of organizations.
Max De Pree
#14. Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#15. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
#16. Witnessing is the essence of being a documentary filmmaker. Capturing moments in time; never knowing how history will judge them.
Pamela Yates
#17. Far too many times in life we throw ourselves
in ships without knowing how stable they
are, or how deep is the water for it to float.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
#18. Knowing how to free oneself is nothing; the difficult thing is knowing how to live with that freedom.
Andre Gide
#19. Sometimes it was hard to breathe, knowing how small my world could be. Maybe in San Francisco it wouldn't feel like the universe was conspiring to keep me in a bubble.
Heather Demetrios
#20. 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.
Thomas Couture
#21. By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing.
Octavio Paz
#22. The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments
Lee Iacocca
#23. Maybe this is what alone really is - finding out how tiny your world is, and not knowing how to get anywhere else.
David Levithan
#24. If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
Ritchie Blackmore
#25. I want.. she said, knowing what she wanted, feeling pulled toward it, arching toward it, but hardly knowing how to say it.
Laini Taylor
#26. I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white ... because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief.
Leon Battista Alberti
#27. Knowing how to keep someone motivated and how to keep a connection are skills humans have learned and evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. A robot can't figure out whether you can do one more push-up, or how to motivate you to actually do it.
Erik Brynjolfsson
#28. Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.
John Allen Paulos
#29. Frequently a big advantage can be gained by knowing how to give in at the right moment.
Francois Fenelon
#30. She undresses in the paradise
of her memory
she is unaware of the fierce fate
of her visions
she fears not knowing how to name
what does not exist
Alejandra Pizarnik
#31. A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
Cesare Pavese
#32. The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.
Gautama Buddha
#33. I think that we succumb to attitudes that do not permit us to dialogue: domination, not knowing how to listen, annoyance in our speech, preconceived judgments and so many others.
Pope Francis
#34. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
Bell Hooks
#35. If you reach the age of twenty-five or thirty without knowing how to spell (TOTALLY, not TODILLY), or capitalize in the proper places (White House, not white-house), or write a sentence containing both a noun AND a verb, you're probably never going to know.
Stephen King
#36. most great truths are expressed in the common language of life; some understand them, but most people utter them without knowing how much they mean.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
#37. Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.
Sarah Dessen
#38. What I tell my kids is, 'I'm preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.'
Michelle Obama
#39. There's nothing worse than not knowing how the one you love feels about you. Of course, in a way, it's not knowing that makes love so exciting...
Hisaya Nakajo
#40. I love you without knowing how, why, or even from where
Patch Adams
#41. When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart and putting it together again.
Koren Zailckas
#42. A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.
Plato
#43. I was, for some reason, born knowing how to get married.
Tracy McMillan
#44. In books, sometimes the foreshadowing is so obvious that you know what's going to happen. But knowing what happens isn't the same as knowing how it happens. Getting there is the best part.
Emery Lord
#45. Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
Robert Frost
#46. Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
John Dewey
#47. Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction ... What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#48. If God is completely beyond our knowing, how can we know that he is unknowable?
Sadhu Sundar Singh
#49. I always have been trying to work on the other side of Jackie, and that is, making sure that my appearance, that my image, is right; also, working in the job world, knowing how it is to wake up and go to a job.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
#50. Next to knowing how to dress well, fire is one of the most important bush skills there are, because it is one of the few means available to make up most great deficiencies.
Mors Kochanski
#51. 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.
Lauren Myracle
#52. Because what nobody ever understood is that I, too, wanted to be a somebody. But how do you go through life wanting to be a someone and not knowing how?
Debbi Fields
#53. Wisdom is knowing how little we know.
Socrates
#54. It wore him down, knowing how small he was ...
how insignificant he was to the things in the shadows ...
it wore him down until there was so little left in him ...
that he almost forgot who he really was.
Ed Brubaker
#55. When a not-doing comes upon you, and there is no reflection of yourself to be found, many things can and will be related back to you as knowledge, yet you have no way of knowing how you assimilated that wisdom.
Lujan Matus
#56. The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out. Sure, there's a lot more living to go, but there isn't much doubt that I'll always be the 'Dilbert guy.' Unless I go on a crime spree, in which case I'll be that stabbin Dilbert guy.
Scott Adams
#57. Knowing how to help people is an art and the person who knows how to do it can always know that he will have the lasting affection of many.
Norman Vincent Peale
#58. Tormented by an unworldly hunger, yet not knowing how to satisfy it.
Sui Ishida
#59. For all of my life it was the size of my rear that caused me the most hand-wringing, but in this nearly-50 zone it is my stomach that is the problem. It seems to have broken free from its moorings and there is no knowing how far it will roam.
Marian Keyes
#60. I don't see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it's going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many chapters it will be and so forth.
John Barth
#61. Being happy is knowing how to be content with little
Epicurus
#62. My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.
Juliana Hatfield
#64. I'm used to people with very high IQs knowing how to recognize reality, but there's a huge human tendency where it may be instructive to think that whatever you're doing to succeed is all right.
Charlie Munger
#65. You think being a man is being strong, being hard, knowing how to defend yourself. But being a man is about learning how to walk away.
Ashley Walters
#66. Knowing how to market yourself and your press materials is key.
Wendy Starland
#67. Culture isn't knowing when Napoleon died. Culture means knowing how I can find out in two minutes.
Umberto Eco
#68. No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
George Sand
#69. Knowing how to see, that is the most important gift from God.
Karen Harper
#70. The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far.
Jean Cocteau
#71. For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
Adam Gopnik
#72. Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.
Brandon Sanderson
#73. Leaning to your true feelings isn't something you're born knowing how to do. It requires practice. The great news is that these skills are like muscles, the more you use them, the stronger they get.
... And trust me, the more you listen, the louder that voice will get.
Rachel Simmons
#74. Doeg, though without knowing how or why,
Made still a blundering kind of melody;
Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin,
Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in;
Free from all meaning whether good or bad,
And in one word, heroically mad.
John Dryden
#75. Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act spontaneously, without needing to know why.
Sylvia Clare
#77. I lie there for a while in the dusk, then make a decision, little knowing how it will affect every facet of my life and fiber of my being for the rest of my life: I say no to shame.
Alan Cumming
#78. [Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.
Hermann Bondi
#79. Knowing how people will use something is essential.
Donald Norman
#80. She didn't want to be commended for knowing how to settle for second-best. That was like winning a prize for the prettiest shoes in a footrace. Irrelevant and not the point.
Julia Quinn
#81. Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore, the ancients wanted their citizens to be trained in every warlike action.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#82. The consciousness of knowing how to make oneself useful, how to help mankind in many ways, fills the soul with noble confidence, almost religious dignity.
Maria Montessori
#83. The hard thing about waiting is the not knowing how it's going to go. That's what makes me really crazy.
Donna Cooner
#84. The true art of being young is knowing how to defy gravity and upset as many people as possible while doing it. How to penetrate the great secrets of the universe and damn the torpedoes. How to stir the demons of our destiny ...
Mick Rock
#85. I wanted to be like my sister, who made friends and mistakes easily. It was like she'd been born knowing how to live.
Mary Miller
#86. I fumble for the return tab and quickly type as I continue my way down the catwalk.
Ned help!
Thank you, SmartText, for knowing how pressing my need for Ned is at this very moment.
Martin Leicht
#87. Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.
John Ortberg
#88. Knowing you want to do something isn't the same as knowing how to do it, and even knowing how to do something isn't the same as actually doing it well.
Meg Jay
#89. Knowing how you want your work to look helps you decide who best to work with and where.
Michele Jennae
#90. In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.
Andy Murray
#91. I don't know what's more tragic, knowing how to read and choosing not to, or not knowing how to read and refusing to learn.
Patricia Goldbach
#92. Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.
Bette Davis
#93. I listen to his heart beating inside his chest. A heart he's claiming isn't capable of knowing how to love, but in actuality, it's a heart that loves too much.
Colleen Hoover
#94. With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.
John Cusack
#95. The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world ...
Henry Giroux
#96. Finding your way doesn't mean you always know where you're going. It's knowing how to find your way back home that's important.
Clare Vanderpool
#97. Going out on a stage publicly and not knowing how people are going to react to you - once I experienced that, it made me feel much more comfortable about going into a scene.
Joaquin Phoenix
#98. The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.
Jacques Ellul
#99. There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing
Mark Twain
#100. Impossible to let go ... No longer knowing how to hold on.
Truth Devour
