Knowing What Quotes

#1. The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

William James

#2. Knowing what you're doing' largely involves pretending to know what you're doing.

David Mitchell

#3. Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#5. Being always right is knowing what you KNOW, knowing what you DON'T know, knowing what you NEED to know and then defining the relationship between all three of them. That's what always being right is.

Todd Travis

#6. By not knowing what we needed to know and knowing what we did not need to know; that verily has made us cry (suffer) in this world. This indeed increases our burden.

Dada Bhagwan

#7. But to expose the former faults of any person without knowing what their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable.

Jane Austen

#8. The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

Jonathan Kellerman

#9. Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake; each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.

Robin Hobb

#10. Serenity comes from knowing what you can and can't change, Nancy

Patricia Cornwell

#11. Honey, five-years-olds say what they think. Knowing what to say and when is called being an adult.

Lindsay J. Pryor

#12. I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true.

Carlos P. Romulo

#13. We put a premium on knowing what the other team does. Then we try to take them out of it.

P. J. Carlesimo

#14. To "stand around with egg on one's face" is not to be confused with "standing around with one's thumb up one's fundament," which means not knowing what to do next, as does "not knowing whether to defecate or wind one's watch.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. But at the same time you know that if a time like that spring were to come around again, and even knowing what you know now, you might well end up making a similar choice to the one you'd made then.

Han Kang

#16. When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.

Calvin Trillin

#17. The key to understanding complicated things is knowing what not to look at.

Gerald Jay Sussman

#18. You could look at birds all your life without ever knowing what was a sparrow and what was a blackbird, but we all know a swan when we see it.

Joe Hill

#19. Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.

Confucius

#20. Did He give me the gift of love to say who I could choose? When God made me did He give me the gift of voice so some could silence me? Did he give me the gift of vision not knowing what I might see? Did he give me the gift of compassion to help my fellow man?

Neil Young

#21. Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can ... On third down and short yardage, the Raiders don't jump offside. That's discipline - not a coat and tie, not a clean shave.

John Madden

#22. Having you wrapped around me all night, feeling you coming around my fingers, now wrapped in a towel and knowing what's under that shit and not being able to do a damn thing about it is my worst fucking nightmare.

Aurora Rose Reynolds

#23. Knowing what to do and not doing it is the same as not knowing what to do.

Robin Sharma

#24. But how can you understand a war without any knowledge of the society where it happens? It's like trying to understand birth without knowing anything about pregnancy or conception. Or like trying to understand our current economic collapse without knowing what a derivative is.

Annia Ciezadlo

#25. One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.

Terry Pratchett

#26. I will literally open my mouth not knowing what is coming out.

Leo Kottke

#27. The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.

Erich Segal

#28. I have been fortunate to get some really good scripts over the years and I haven't turned down anything that I regretted so far. And my manager who I've been with for over 25 years is very good at knowing what I should and shouldn't do a lot of times.

Billy Bob Thornton

#29. The worst part of fame is not always knowing what I'm doing the next day

David Archuleta

#30. If Miss Beresford had not been in such a hurry to marry a poor country clergyman, there was no knowing what she might not have become. But Dixon was too loyal to desert her in her affliction and downfall (alias her married life).

Elizabeth Gaskell

#31. Why, god, why? Why have you deserted me in my moment of need? I'm going to die. I'm going to internally combust never knowing what if feels like to be inside of my girlfriend.
Life is so unfair.

Cheryl McIntyre

#32. Nothing is more irritating than to hear honest writers protest about depravity when one is quite certain that they make these noises without knowing what they are protesting about.

Emile Zola

#33. Knowing what you want to do and then what you have to do to make it happen is one big difference between adult creativity and child's play.

Rob Bevan

#34. It is the feeling of never knowing what we want that truly drives us all mad.... Holding things because we think in a moment we love them only to uncurl our fingers later and softly give them back to the earth.

Christopher Poindexter

#35. Without always knowing what we were doing we were constantly adjusting to the arbitrariness by which we were surrounded.

V.S. Naipaul

#36. I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety.

Lauren Graham

#37. Most people don't walk around knowing what other people think about them, and I don't think it's healthy to know what faceless strangers who you'll never meet say about you.

Christina Ricci

#38. Knowing what environments are a good fit requires a person to know about themselves, in other words, to have self-awareness.

Joanie Connell

#39. The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day ...

Donald Barthelme

#40. When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended.

Publilius Syrus

#41. He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.

Antonio Porchia

#42. 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.

Gloria Steinem

#43. Overpowered by the sadness of not knowing what there is in the world, and what I'm doing. Feeling completely indifferent to good and evil too, to beauty or anything else. I know that this is the root of all human troubles, all of them. Indifferent to that knowledge, too. Nothing got written.

Jack Kerouac

#44. The thing I'm most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I'm going to do. Of not knowing what I'm doing right now

Haruki Murakami

#45. Just as hundreds of brushstrokes comprised a finished canvas, people were made up of a lifetime of experiences, both good and bad. And without knowing what someone had endured, it was impossible to truly know them - and accept them - for who they were.

Tamera Alexander

#46. There's a terror in knowing what the world is about

David Bowie

#47. Knowledge is knowing a fact, wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact.

B. J. Palmer

#48. I come from an improvisational background so I'm used to playing. I'm used to not knowing what exactly is going to come out.

Naomi Grossman

#49. A key to life is knowing what to ignore and when to shut up.

Lisa Bedrick

#50. Knowing what you don't want is the same thing as knowing nothing.

Marty Rubin

#51. She was afraid of not being able to pull herself out of the dream world, never waking up, never knowing what really happened, never realizing her goals, her hopes, her dreams.

B. Barmanbek

#52. Spoilers are cowardly. They're just people who want to anesthetize themselves against the tension and the experience that the director and the artist have set up. If you go in there knowing what's going to happen, it's like reading the last page of the book. It's just cowardly.

Simon Pegg

#53. Knowing what your parents have gives you hints of things, but your genome is a totally unique combination of and interchange of DNA from your parents. There is no one else like you genetically.

Craig Venter

#54. Coming back like this to hunt for details for my stories feels a bit like poaching on land that used to be mine. But I've never lost the need to tell of my Alabama, to reveal it, lush and green and full of death. So I return, knowing what I've learned.

Tom Franklin

#55. If we who follow Christ, with all the facts before us and knowing what we are about, deliberately choose the kingdom of God as our sphere of interest, I see no reason why anyone should object. If we lose by it, the loss is our own; if we gain, we rob no one by so doing.

A.W. Tozer

#56. Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing.

Ellen Langer

#57. Dogs aren't born knowing what or what not to do; they only learn like children.

Barbara Woodhouse

#58. At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.

Ernest Hemingway,

#59. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it.

David Starr Jordan

#60. What I really do when I write you is follow myself, and I'm doing it right now: I'm following myself without knowing what it will lead me to. Sometimes following myself is so hard. Because of following something that's still so nebulous. Sometimes I end up stopping.

Clarice Lispector

#61. ADHD is not about knowing what to do,
but about doing what one knows.

Russell Barkley

#62. To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

Mark Nepo

#63. When my heart is better, less shrunken, I will throw her out there to love again, without hesitation, even knowing what we know.

Jennifer Harrison

#64. Trust hangs somewhere between knowing what your heart longs for and trying to dictate the shape or timing or outcome of your heart's desire. It lies in the willingness to accept the particulars of how and when and where God chooses to intervene. It waits in the cool shade of surrender.

Paula Rinehart

#65. 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.

Robert Pattinson

#66. A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.

Karl Jaspers

#67. Not knowing what will happen makes life fun.

Akechi Mitsuhide

#68. That's why I read, as a stranger,
My being as if it were pages.
Not knowing what will come
And forgetting what has passed,
I note in the margin of my reading
What I thought I felt.
Rereading, I wonder: "Was that me?"
God knows, because he wrote it.

Fernando Pessoa

#69. veryone is capable of learning; the trick is knowing what you need to learn.

Donna Snyder-Smith

#70. We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now we have come to the era when happiness is 'knowing what your uterus looks like'.

Nora Ephron

#71. Knowing what to do but not doing it will not produce results

Tori Bouwer

#72. Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean.

Maurice Sendak

#73. If you offered me the chance to do it all over, knowing what I know now, after the things I've seen ... I'd shoot you in the head. That ain't the kind of thing you ask a lady. - Frances Brown

Seanan McGuire

#74. Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.

Assata Shakur

#75. I want.. she said, knowing what she wanted, feeling pulled toward it, arching toward it, but hardly knowing how to say it.

Laini Taylor

#76. The term compassion means shared suffering. You develop compassion by knowing what it is like to suffer.

Victor Shamas

#77. Life isn't something you can give an answer to today. You should enjoy the process of waiting, the process of becoming what you are. There is nothing more delightful than planting flower seeds and not knowing what kind of flowers are going to come up.

Milton H. Erickson

#78. Effective leadership is doing important things first. Effective management is knowing what is important.

Debasish Mridha

#79. Experience is knowing what not to do and knowing when not to do it.

Dennis Coates

#80. The people I've known who wanted to become writers, knowing what it meant, did become writers.

John Gardner

#81. It seems that wishing and hoping and dreaming and remembering can be eve more helpful than knowing what's going to happen.

Melissa Senate

#82. As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.

Mother Teresa

#83. A real life doesn't mean getting what you want; the achievement, the privilege, too is knowing what you love.

Marisa De Los Santos

#84. One of the poets says somewhere that animals are a different people. I killed them by the ten, by the hundred, thousand, not even knowing what they were called. I destroyed their houses, their secrets. And buried them. Buried them. Leonid

Svetlana Alexievich

#85. 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

#86. Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me.

Bill Rodgers

#87. Things are always changing. Part of being successful here is being comfortable with not knowing what's going to happen.

Susan Wojcicki

#88. I have a notion that genius knows itself; that Dickinson chose her seclusion, knowing she was exceptional and knowing what she needed.

Adrienne Rich

#89. At any moment in the day, you can only do one thing at a time. And the more intentional you are about knowing what your 1 is, the more present you will be.

Rob Bell

#90. Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.

Francois Fenelon

#91. As I helped him up, I felt him shake all over, so I asked him to forgive me, without knowing what for, but that was my lot, asking forgiveness, I even asked forgiveness of myself for being what I was, what it was my nature to be.

Bohumil Hrabal

#92. There are great municipal investments out there, but on a blanket basis you have to be really careful about knowing what cash flows are supporting your investments.

Meredith Whitney

#93. Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.

Isaac Asimov

#94. That's what love is ... It's scary not knowing what's expected ... but I know it'll be the best frightening love we've ever had.

E.L. Montes

#95. She had understood all that he had said, with no way of knowing what he meant. It was as though he himself existed here in this town in this state in translation, ambiguous, slightly wrong, too highly colored or wrongly nuanced. Within him was the original, which no one could read.

John Crowley

#96. A wise man once said all children are born knowing what the angels look like

Daniel Gottlieb

#97. And he misses her
Like a wind starved sail
He sits knowing what direction to go
But the current keeps pulling him
Down river.

Rumi

#98. I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.

Samantha Mumba

#99. We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.

Christopher Walken

#100. Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.

Thomas Hardy