Knowing What You Know Quotes

#1. Knowing what you know, be serene also, like a mountain; and do not be distressed by misfortune. Knowledge without serenity is an unlit candle; together they are honey-comb; honey without wax is a noble thing; wax without honey is only fit for burning.

Sanai

#2. Knowing your ignorance is far better than knowing what you know! Understanding the path and will of God is far better than mastering your own path.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#3. That's one of the great sadnesses of any life - knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.

Michael Ondaatje

#4. So, knowing what you know now, if you had the chance to go back to, say, '68, '70, would you do things differently?

Frank Zane

#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. 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

#7. Do you really want to know what it's like, being a spy? Never sure to whom you're giving your allegiance, and knowing that most of your colleagues will die gruesomely, often by your hand? Fine. Let me show you.

Delilah S. Dawson

#8. Nights are the worst. You just don't know what it's like for me, trying not to think of [him] ... knowing that we're going to be apart for so long. It's pure torture.

Judy Blume

#9. I don't know you very well, and i'm almost afraid to know you better. Maybe i love you because i don't know you. Maybe if i knew what you were really like and what you wanted out of life and what you think is important, I wouldn't care for you at all and that would be the end of this.

Elliot Mabeuse

#10. Today knowledge is free. It's like air, it's like water ... There's no competitive advantage to knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.

Tony Wagner

#11. You can work for other people and still be a #GIRLBOSS; it's more about a state of mind and knowing yourself well enough to know when you're making decisions for yourself or because the world expects them of you. And guess what? It's okay to do that sometimes, too.

Sophia Amoruso

#12. She is the sort of person who can do things she doesn't know yet. There are things you know you know and you know you don't know and you don't know you know and you don't know you don't know. She may not know what she does know.

Thomm Quackenbush

#13. Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.

Criss Jami

#14. It just goes to show you that knowing things is highly insufficient--having the guts to back up what you know is what changes the course of a human being's future. (call, Nov. 10, 2014)

Laura Schlessinger

#15. Always see the good in everyone...learn to see through God's eyes no matter what...remember, the tables may turn tomorrow. You just never know!

Kemi Sogunle

#16. True wisdom is knowing what you don't know

Confucius

#17. And I said to him when you learn to read then you learn everything you didnt know before. But when you write you write only what you know allready so patientia Im better off not knowing how to write because the ass is the ass

Umberto Eco

#18. On our first record, man, I didn't know what I was doing. I was just playing. I was over playing. You're as green as you can be with no experience in recording or knowing how sometimes a song can work: when it's too much, when it's not enough, when it's not right.

Tommy Lee

#19. What I call the void is where nothing exists. It is about things outside man's knowledge. Of course the void does not exist. By knowing what exist, you can know that which does not exist. That is the void.

Miyamoto Musashi

#20. What is yoga ? In simple words, it is taking your attention to the Spirit. This is yoga. What does the kundalini do ? She raises your attention and takes it to the Spirit. Only after knowing the Spirit you can know God.

Nirmala Srivastava

#21. Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

Chuck Smith

#22. You have no idea what it is," Ty said in a clipped voice. "You can't say it's going to be okay. You don't know.

Cassandra Clare

#23. One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn't like you. Especially when you don't know what you've done to deserve it.

Ariana Grande

#24. Fearless what that means to me, knowing your enough, when you know in your heart and your mind that you're enough you're fearless. It's not just a magazine, it's a lifestyle, right? So embrace that - I am fearless!

Annie Ilonzeh

#25. A good education teaches you how to ask a question. It's knowing what you don't know; the skills of critical thought.

Ted Sizer

#26. Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.

Richard P. Feynman

#27. Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Agnes De Mille

#28. Getting older is a question of coming to terms with the fact that you'll never know the secrets; and the resulting equilibrium is what gives the illusion of actually knowing them.

Paul Shepheard

#29. In education it isn't how much you have committed to memory or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know and it's knowing how to use the information you get.

William Feather

#30. It's about knowing that in certain moments you have to offer yourself up as a minor sacrifice to help them accomplish what they need to accomplish. Letting them abuse you, on the other hand, would be a terrible disservice. I know it seems like a fine line, but it's a real one, and it can be done.

Patrick Lencioni

#31. What if deep down inside you...you knew you were more amazing and magnificent than you thought you were?

Roger James McDonald

#32. The Master said, "You [Zilu], do you know what I have been trying to teach you? To say that you know something when you know it and to say that you do not know something when you do not know it - this is true knowing [zhi].

Confucius

#33. People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a sudden, you're, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I'm going through.

R. Kelly

#34. What is the main thing in love? To know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden - the passion for the revealed.

Marina Tsvetaeva

#35. I have no way of knowing what you are going to feel when you look at one of my paintings; I only know what I feel.

Danny Fox

#36. Know what you're talking about.

George H. W. Bush

#37. so many people who think they know only know what they don't know, as time passes by, they may get to know what they don't know and then they will know

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#38. Awaken yourself by stopping your preoccupation with what you think you know, and instead rest comfortably in the not knowing. Embrace possibility and potential. Do not fear the unknown or that which you cannot control.

Alfred James

#39. Alex: "You asked earlier why us humans fear death. I suppose it is the unknown - not knowing what awaits on the other side. But now I know, and I still fear it."
The Darkness: "?"
Alex: "But now I fear the living - in fact, I now fear life more than death!

Scott Beadle

#40. Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were ... Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff?

Robbie Robertson

#41. The binding factor between knowing something and doing it is "passion". When your passion is concentrated in what you know, your work output will bind well.

Israelmore Ayivor

#42. If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.

RZA

#43. Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.

Sophie Kinsella

#44. Patriotic'? Dear, dear me!" Scarlett covered her mouth in mock astonishment. "I didn't know that was 'patriotism.' I believe what you intended has ruder names, though no well-bred Georgia lady would admit to knowing them.

Donald McCaig

#45. When you go the extra mile, people will know, and that knowing changes everything about how they feel about what you do.

Bernadette Jiwa

#46. A cop told me, a long time ago, that there's no substitute for knowing what you're doing. Most of us scribblers do not. The ones that're any good are aware of this. The rest write silly stuff. The trouble is this: The readers know it.

George V. Higgins

#47. Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

Margaret Atwood

#48. In their huge bedroom that night, Tyr said to Thor, "I hope you know what you are doing."

"Of course I do," said Thor. But he didn't. He was just doing whatever he felt like doing. That was what Thor did best.

Neil Gaiman

#49. You don't have to speak at all
I know what you'd say ...
- Laura

Wilkie Collins

#50. Knowing what you don't know is the beginning of wisdom.

Debasish Mridha

#51. Once you know what you want, narrow the options, make your choices, and go for it. But until you do, embrace not knowing.

Jen Doll

#52. That isn't about money, fame, or power. It's about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money can't buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that.

Jennifer Hudson

#53. I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.

Stephen Root

#54. The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#55. 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.

Eva Longoria

#56. The most crippling part of my personality is that as much as I want to know something, I can't bear admitting I'm ignorant. It's as if I think I should have been born knowing and understanding all. As if when I say out loud, what are you talking about? the world will point and jeer.

Caroline B. Cooney

#57. Do you know where you are going? Do you know what you are going to do? Do you know what you are going to say? Sometimes you better know nothing and flow freely just like a river, not knowing where to go, not knowing what to do, not knowing what to say!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#58. I do wish that I had gone to college, just for the simple fact that knowing more than one approach makes you more well-rounded. But I still can't say knowing what I know now, that I would have done it any differently.

Meagan Good

#59. You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am ... Carry on.

Charles M. Schulz

#60. People will think you brilliant
only if you tell them what they know.
To avoid being thought brilliant,
avoid knowing what they know.
Write to discover to yourself
what you know.

Anarchism is Not Enough

Laura Riding Jackson

#61. The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.

Michelle Tea

#62. Often I don't know what the song means until it's finished. Sometimes months later. I don't think that's bad. It implies that I don't know what I'm doing but-I think if you're able to follow your instincts, then that's knowing what you're doing.

David Byrne

#63. Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.

Junior Seau

#64. There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. every part of your life has unfolded just right. And so -now- knowing all that you know from where you now stand, now what do you want? The answers are now coming forth to you. Go forth in joy, and get on with it.

Abraham Hicks

#65. Knowing things will not harm you. Doing them is a different matter. What you know will be a protection. What you do ruins - if it is wrong.

Gene Stratton-Porter

#66. You know a dream is like a river
Ever changing as it flows.
And a dreamer's just a vessel
That must follow where it goes.
Trying to learn from what's behind you
And never knowing what's in store
Makes each day a constant battle
Just to stay between the shores.

Garth Brooks

#67. And will knowing what she reads make you know who she is?"
"Can you think of a better way to tell?

Donna Leon

#68. Thank you seems like too little ... or maybe too much, since he couldn't possibly understand how much I needed to hear what he just said. How much I needed to know that even without my ability, I am someone worth knowing. That every little and ridiculous quality I exhibit makes me who I am.

Kasie West

#69. I didn't realize it until now, but I don't really know anything about them, or what kind of people they are, really. You can't see inside a person's heart.

Koushun Takami

#70. I am one of you and being one of you is being and knowing what I am and know. Yet I am the necessary Angel of earth, since, in my sight, you see the earth again ...

Wallace Stevens

#71. Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it ...

Charles Duhigg

#72. An amazing thing happens when you stop seeking approval and validation: You find it. People are naturally drawn like magnets to those who know who they are and cannot be shaken!

Mandy Hale

#73. 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

#74. Who we are is what comes out when shit goes bad. You can't tell anything about a person when things are great. If you want to really know someone, be there when everything goes to hell.

Eileen Cook

#75. We never know what is going to happen, do we? Life is always throwing us this way and that. That's where the adventure is. Not knowing where you'll end up or how you'll fare. It's all a mystery, and when we say any different, we're just lying to ourselves. Tell me, when have you felt most alive?

Eowyn Ivey

#76. Knowing what you don't know is more useful than being brilliant.

Charlie Munger

#77. To be young and not to know how, is bearable; to be old and not have the strength, is too great a weight to carry. And what's is so painful you can't sense your powers leaving you. It's hard for an old man to ensure such blows!

Ivan Turgenev

#78. When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

Mark Twain

#79. And what is the use of knowing many things if, when you have learned the dimensions of heaven and earth, the measure of the seas, the courses of stars, the virtues of plants and stones, the secrets of nature, you still don't know yourself?

Francesco Petrarca

#80. I ain't the captain of the yacht, but I'm on the boat;
I ain't acting what I'm not, knowing that I don't.
You niggaz acting like you will, but I know you won't.
Man, I read between the lines of the eyes of your brows,
Your handshake ain't matchin your smile ...

Beanie Sigel

#81. I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. I learned the law of the harvest without even knowing I was learning it. On the farm, you learn early that you reap what you sow.

Sheri L. Dew

#82. Most people who make threats don't follow through. The most dangerous people are often those who never make threats. But 'most' and 'often' aren't what you are looking for when you're dealing with a scary person. You want to 'know.' And there is no knowing.

Susan Estrich

#83. Do you know what it's been like for me since that day in the flat? Sitting across from you in bars, at dinner, knowing that underneath all the attitude is every man's fucking fantasy.

Samantha Young

#84. To have integrity one must be consistently honest and trustworthy in everything one does ... When you have integrity, people know you will do what you know is right ... Its knowing what you have to do without someone telling you to do it. It is the core of a person's-and a company's- reputation.

Richard M. Kovacevich

#85. Arin, why are you so transparent? Whenever you worry, you start fixing things. Draining nasty gunk from a hoof is the least of it. I don't know what's worse, watching you do that or knowing how hard it will always be for you to keep yourself to yourself.

Marie Rutkoski

#86. You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

Robert Jordan

#87. You think you know the answer, you're going to find peace? Like knowing is somehow going to fix you? You think after what happened there's any peace for you, sweetheart? How about this. Instead of asking yourself what happened, just accept that it happened.

Gillian Flynn

#88. This was what true fear was
that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind.

Lauren Oliver

#89. Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you're guaranteed to do them differently.

Sara Blakely

#90. Wisdom isn't a body of information. It's the moral quality of knowing what you don't know and figuring out a way to handle your ignorance, uncertainty, and limitation.

David Brooks

#91. Truly being authentic is knowing what matters to you, on the deepest level of who you are, and committing always to act from that authentic center.

Richie Norton

#92. My style has been nurtured over time. It's more about knowing what doesn't suit you. I love suits and anything sharp, and I know that shape suits me. I don't feel feminine in floaty dresses with spaghetti straps - I feel more like Freddie Mercury in drag.

Erin O'Connor

#93. Knowledge gained is as useless as pride
if filed away and never applied.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#94. Knowing what you don't want in life is almost as helpful as having a five year plan. Vision doesn't always mean you know exactly what you want to do or where you want to be in life; sometimes, vision is knowing where you don't want to be in order to find where you should end up!

Amanda Bernardo

#95. Create some clear space and then you will know exactly what to do.

Bryant McGill

#96. If you were a man, you'd know in your bones what direction you were going. It's an automatic thing, this knowing where you are, bred deep in a man's bones.

Catherine Coulter

#97. Thinking of someone else is what got me damned. It's a mistake I don't want to repeat. (Xypher)
You know sometimes it's by repeating our mistakes that we realize what went wrong the first time. Knowing that, we're able to fix the mistake and move past it. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#98. What you know
and don't deny that
you don't know
and knowing this
you know
what and why
you don't know.
Right?

Jennifer Hillman

#99. The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will know.

Hugh Prather

#100. You're holding your future self responsible for something your past self didn't know anything about. You can't judge your past behavior because of the way things turned out. You had no way of knowing what would happen next. It's only because you do know that you judge your past self.

E.K. Blair