Top 100 Knowing Others Quotes
#1. Knowing others is wisdom. Knowing yourself is Enlightenment. - Lao-Tzu
The RZA
#2. One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends.
Christopher Knight
#3. It feels good to be awake, knowing others are asleep. Makes you feel like the night is not for everyone, just a chosen few.
Joseph Morgan
#4. Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
Lao-Tzu
#5. Knowing others is wisdom;
Knowing the self is enlightenment.
Mastering others requires force;
Mastering the self requires strength;
He who knows he has enough is rich.
Perseverance is a sign of will power.
Lao-Tzu
#6. Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.
Laozi
#7. There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.
Samuel Butler
#9. Some people live their entire life not knowing who they are, others live their life thinking they are something they are not. Only a luck few are blessed enough to find themselves in someone else.
Robert Hawkins
#10. As much as everything can seem to be about patterns in your self and others, within the drama of all that, it's really all about knowing.
John De Ruiter
#11. Do not judge others, without first judging yourself. There is no strength without knowing thyself.
Luis Marques
#12. What is clear to me today is that I must ignore the opinions and advice of others when they interfere with my own inner knowing. It is enough for me to know that I have a song, and by God, I intend to sing it.
Wayne W. Dyer
#13. Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.
Mark Twain
#14. Unity is a spiritual quality. It's the sweet feelings of peace and purpose that come from belonging to a family ... It's wanting the best for others as much as you want it for yourself ... It's knowing that no one is out to harm you. It means you will never be lonely.
Mary N. Cook
#15. One pays a price for innovation, and innovators, knowing this, are hardly conciliators: books are not written specifically to please others; they are written, like it or not, to please oneself.
Alexis Lykiard
#16. Reading ought to mean understanding; writing ought to mean knowing something; believing ought to mean comprehending; when you desire a thing, you will have to take it; when you demand it, you will not get it; and when you are experienced, you ought to be useful to others.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#17. The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#18. Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.
Eric Lau
#19. From our birth we are all dying, but some of us finish sooner than others.
Raymond E. Feist
#20. This is what it means to be human "in the image of God." It means being free to make choices instead of doing whatever our instincts
would tell us to do. It means knowing that some choices are good, and others are bad, and it is our job to know the difference.
Harold S. Kushner
#21. My parents taught me that I could do anything I wanted and I have always believed it to be true. Add a clear idea of what inspires you, dedicate your energies to its pursuit and there is no knowing what you can achieve, particularly if others are inspired by your dream and offer their help.
Pete Goss
#22. Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.
Gretchen Rubin
#23. I wonder why some people seem to be born knowing what they want to do with their lives and others - mostly me - have no idea.
Kasie West
#24. You have to do some thinking and know who you are, and then you have to resist compromising your truth for the comfort of others.
Bryant McGill
#25. You are worthless to others if you don't know your own self and self-worth.
Bryant McGill
#26. There is an elegance to knowing who you are that will help you unfold a sweet tolerance for yourself. Knowing and liking yourself will then allow you to be kind and compassionate to others, deeply aware that they want the same things: love and contentment.
Margaux Bergen
#27. The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself.
Denis Waitley
#28. I rejoice in the success of others, knowing that there is plenty for us all.
Louise Hay
#29. When it's pouring rain and you're bowling along through the wet, there's satisfaction in knowing you're out there and the others aren't.
Peter Snell
#30. About the gods I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist or what they are to look at. Many things prevent my knowing. Among others, the fact that they are never seen.
Protagoras
#31. How many others were walking around and not even knowing that someone far away cared for them? Imagine all that love floating in the air, waiting to land on someone's life!
Pam Munoz Ryan
#32. Feeling inspired, being challenged. Learning something new, something meaningful. Knowing change is possible and I can make that happen. Understanding and loving others, feeling truly connected and authentic. Good food, great sex, and belly laughs. All the basic foundations of happiness, really!
Jaime Murray
#33. The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty.
Emile Durkheim
#34. The reward that outdoes all others is the peace of knowing that you did right.
Jack Hyles
#35. You were the only one
who understood
the futility of the
arrangement of
life;
all the others were only
displeased with
trivial segments,
carped
nonsensically about
nonsense;
Jane, you were
killed by
knowing too much.
Charles Bukowski
#36. Duty is a very personal thing. It is what comes from knowing the need to take action and not just a need to urge others to do something.
Mother Teresa
#37. Realistic thinking is based on what others think is possible-but they are not you and have no way of knowing your potential and purposes
Grant Cardone
#38. How was I to be a scientist, father Lion?' Science is knowing. What could I have known? Others always did the knowing, knew what was in me, what should come out of me, what was best for me. I didn't know who I was, what I wanted. I know less now, and I am afraid.
Russell Hoban
#39. Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and emerge with the power to turn language into a lathe for re-shaping, re-knowing your own tongue, heart, and life ...
Jane Hirshfield
#40. Maybe I don't feel what others feel. I have no way of knowing. But I do feel. It's just that what I feel does not elicit tears. What I feel when others cry is more like a dry, empty aloneness, like I'm the only person left in the world.
Francisco X Stork
#41. For as we forgive, we are forgiven; as we condemn others, we are ourselves condemned. Thus in patience condemn not, neither find fault; not condoning, not agreeing, but let thine own life so shine that others, seeing thy patience, knowing thy understanding, comprehending thy peace, may take hope.
Edgar Cayce
#42. Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.
Mark Cuban
#43. She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.
Michael Ondaatje
#44. When you know both yourself as well as your competition, you are never in danger. To know yourself and not others, gives you half a chance of winning. Knowing neither yourself or your competition puts you in a position to lose.
Sun Tzu
#45. Self-righteousness is an especially heady condition that all of us have experienced at one time or another. Those who are honest will admit there is something sickly-sweet and alluring about knowing you are right, while others are terribly wrong.
David Brin
#46. A successful life is an authentic life. Happiness and creativity rest on a foundation of transparency to yourself and others. Knowing your own heart and speaking clearly to others keep you on the path.
Gay Hendricks
#47. Knowing how to do a job is the accomplishment of labor - showing others is the accomplishment of the teacher - making sure the work is done by others is the accomplishment of the manager - inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of the leader.
John C. Maxwell
#48. Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.
David W. Earle
#49. No matter how difficult the trail ... we can take comfort in knowing that others before us have borne life's most grievous trials and tragedies by looking to heaven.
M. Russell Ballard
#50. Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.
Pope Francis
#51. It's a complicated thing, knowing how much pain my father caused in my life and the lives of others whom I love, yet still holding love for him in my heart. No matter what he did, he was my father. He helped create the person I am.
Hope Solo
#52. She stopped as a map of Erilea appeared. Maps had always interested her; there was something bewitching in knowing one's precise location in relation to others on earth.
Sarah J. Maas
#53. All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
Abdurrahman Wahid
#54. Being a leader is not about finding ways to get others to serve you, but knowing how to serve your followers.
A.J. Darkholme
#55. When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming , no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming, she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.
Amy Tan
#56. There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
Orison Swett Marden
#57. Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.
Kevyn Aucoin
#58. Father Chee?"
"Yes, Amber?"
"Why do some people go through life never knowing a single major tragedy, and then others have horrible things happen to them over and over again?"
"I don't know.
Matthew Quick
#59. When I was submitting my first novel, I had no idea that publishing scams existed. I never encountered any, but I could have - and knowing how easily I might have been taken advantage of makes me determined to protect others from falling into that trap.
Victoria Strauss
#60. For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is.
Robert Breault
#61. Heroism is not blind courage: it is selfless action. it is knowing the odds are stacked against you, but feeling that you must do what you do for the good of others.
John Baldoni
#62. Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
Marianne Williamson
#63. We tend to think that it's up to others to respect our needs and fill them for us. But that doesn't ever work, and for the following reason:
If you have a hard time knowing what it is you really need, then how on earth can you logically expect someone else to know?
Amanda Butterworth
#64. Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?
John Piper
#65. When I do programming in my free time and for my own enjoyment, I really want to have a kind of protection: knowing that when I improve a program those improvements will continue to be available to me and others in future versions of the program.
Linus Torvalds
#66. When to give grace? I'd rather stand before God knowing I loved others too much rather than regretting that I judged too harshly.
Lysa TerKeurst
#67. On the surface, there is no distinction between our experiences - some are vivid, others opaque; some are pleasant, others cause agony upon recollection - but there is no way of knowing which are dreams and which are reality.
Silvina Ocampo
#68. ... And when the time comes to choose yet another dream, I shall smile knowing that I had a life with no less challenges than others, but I chose to respond to them with love.
Raphael Zernoff
#69. Knowing a person's true identity - it feels wonderful & painful at the same time. It feels wonderful because you will know a lot more about him. It feels painful because you only have one choice, it is "acceptance".
Jan
#70. The conscience is a communal organ - a way of knowing that we do with others formed always in reference to others.
Ken Wilson
#72. O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.
Baha'u'llah
#73. Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
Alain De Botton
#74. Knowing your self-worth isn't something others can validate. You either believe it or you don't.
Richard Paul Evans
#75. Being hurt inevitably breeds feelings of hatred towards your attacker. But when we hurt others, we have to deal with their hatred for us, and our own feelings of guilt. Knowing what it feels like to be hurt is exactly why we try to be kind to others. That's what makes us humans.
Masashi Kishimoto
#76. Hatred is prevalent on this earth because it requires no real effort, unlike the investment it takes to genuinely understand a person.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#77. Confidence is about knowing, and loving yourself enough to not compare yourself to others
Steven Aitchison
#78. I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.
Wayne Rogers
#79. It was mind boggling to know that I would experience such betrayal at such a young age while others live their whole life without knowing what betrayal is
Veronika Gasparyan
#80. Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.
Albert Einstein
#81. A good man does not worry about not being known by others, but rather is concerned about not knowing them.
Confucius
#82. The day you begin to accept who you are is when the journey of knowing yourself begins. That day is when validation through others becomes something of the past, and loving you and evolving into who you were made to be will begin.
Pierre Alex Jeanty
#83. It is logical to say that ignorance seems to be the root cause of all human suffering.
Kat Lahr
#84. Our deepest need is for the joy that comes with knowing we are of genuine use to others.
Eknath Easwaran
#85. Questioning authority doesn't make you resistant; who should follow blindly without knowing the destination
LDarnell
#86. If we really knew the God of Jesus, we would stop trying to control and manipulate others "for their own good," knowing full well that this is not how God works among His people. - The Signature of Jesus
Brennan Manning
#87. I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.
Maureen Johnson
#88. The way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others.
Robert Jensen
#89. Knowing yourself lets you understand others.
Jenny Holzer
#90. Through words we come to know the other person
and to be known. This knowing is at the heart of our deepest longings for intimacy and connection with others. How relationships unfold with the most important people in our lives depends on courage and clarity in finding voice.
Harriet Lerner
#91. I feel a great comfort and relief knowing that there are others who lived and died and thought and fought so long ago; I feel less tyrannized by the present day.
Iggy Pop
#92. When my father passed away, he had his organs donated. In that painful moment, I was deeply comforted knowing that my father would be able to give others a second chance at life. That is why I encourage everyone to sign up to be a donor.
John Perez
#93. After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they
speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they
have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment.
Douglas Coupland
#94. i don't know why
i split myself open
for others knowing
sewing myself up
hurts this much
afterwards
Rupi Kaur
#95. Contrary to the common misconception that loving yourself equates to being self-absorbed and lacking empathy or consideration for others, the true meaning of self-love is about caring, respecting and knowing yourself, taking responsibility for your life, and ultimately, your happiness.
Miya Yamanouchi
#96. In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others.
Barry Schwartz
#97. We must know our own roles. We should also know the roles that others play, and the rules such roles follow. In this manner, social harmony is maintained. It is when we overstep our roles, or act without knowing them, that social anarchy ensues.
F. Sionil Jose
#98. For how could he live with himself, if indeed he did live at all, knowing that his life was so inextricably bound to others, knowing that he was not his own man? "So,
Daniel Wallace
#99. The feet bound by leather souls feel not the humbleness of the sod. They carry the person without knowing the terrain below upon which they frequent trod.
Timothy W. Tron
#100. 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
