Top 100 Quotes About Knowing Something
#1. What use is it that knowledge mounts? It's knowing something good that counts.
Friedrich Von Logau
#2. Father laughed, which upset Bruno even more; there was nothing that made him more angry than when a grown-up laughed at him for not knowing something, especially when he was trying to find out the answer by asking questions.
John Boyne
#3. Time means nothing.Time is just the way we measure the gaps between not knowing something and knowing it or not doing something and doing it.
Richard Bach
#4. I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape.
George Orwell
#5. Faith is knowing something that no-one else does.
Phil Pringle
#6. 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
#7. It's impossible to know everything about everything but the real pleasure lies in knowing something about everything
Anubhav Mishra
#8. First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it.
Ben Aaronovitch
#9. Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!
Nathan Myhrvold
#10. The Resurrected/Glorified, God-man Jesus and the angelic beings obviously have knowledge with which to think/reason/articulate/communicate. In my opinion, it seems to me there is 'another way' of knowing something. Yet, they have no physical/organic brain?"
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#11. 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
#12. prefer to die not knowing something, rather than live my entire life believing something was so, only to find out later that it wasn't true.
Scott Alan Roberts
#13. There's this thin line between knowing something is going to be really hard and saying, 'Yeah, you know, but I still gotta see if I can pull it off.'
Michael Keaton
#14. Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student.
Hyman Bass
#15. Bragging is how criminals get caught and men with deep secrets deliver themselves to their enemies. It's bonehead human nature. We all want to look special. Knowing something is one of the best ways.
Glen Cook
#16. Knowing something and acting on it are not the same thing. Knowledge without the application of what has been learned is useless.
Peter James West
#17. How do we know imagination isn't just a different way of knowing something? A message from outside.
Stephanie S. Tolan
#18. William Stoner felt a kinship that he had not suspected; he knew that Lomax had gone through a kind of conversion, an epiphany of knowing something through words that could not be put in words,
John Edward Williams
#19. The difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something are worlds apart.
Lionel Suggs
#20. The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
Samuel Johnson
#21. It felt like the wrong thing to do, standing at the wrong door in the wrong place. We did it anyway. Knowing something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will eer know why.
Lemony Snicket
#22. It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree
Guy Gavriel Kay
#23. This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak - the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning.
Joseph Conrad
#24. If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. Cognitive insight (knowing something) is not like emotional insight (feeling something). It has no psychodynamic effects. It does not affect the narcissist's behavior patterns, or his interpersonal interactions - the products of well entrenched and rigid defense mechanisms.
Sam Vaknin
#26. They had been through hell when their little boy was born, and now they were suffering again. Knowing something, but then having it confirmed by an expert are two different things. Their life with autism had begun.
Michael Braccia
#27. I've come to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it. Because when she cut off contact, yeah, I knew what had happened. But it took me a long, long time to believe it.
Some days, I still don't quite believe it.
Gayle Forman
#28. Die knowing something. You're not here long.
Walker Evans
#29. But knowing something and feeling something are two totally different things.
Robin Benway
#30. Varro to Brian: You always think there has to be some grand gesture, but really, there doesn't even have to be words. Just knowing something should be all the truth you need.
Mary Calmes
#31. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
Walker Evans
#32. You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.
Boris Vallejo
#33. There are many things that you can avoid by just knowing something. Knowledge of self is the most notable knowledge I pursue. By knowing myself, I avoided dead dreams and a meaningless life.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#34. Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, knowing something is more important than fear and taking action in the face of fear.
Roy Bennett
#35. We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.
Benjamin Disraeli
#36. Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.
Orson Scott Card
#37. 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
#38. I just don't like the feeling of knowing something that somebody else doesn't.
Scarlett Johansson
#39. If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something.
Terry Pratchett
#40. Maybe there was something safe in the not knowing, something that made it feel like all the mundane questions you were usually required to ask were not all that important after all.
Jennifer E. Smith
#41. I know I shouldn't feel guilty for being angry sometimes, or bitter" "Knowing something is beans.
Megan Hart
#43. But knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things.
Maureen Johnson
#44. Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.
Mitch Albom
#45. I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.
Gayle Forman
#46. I knew that it was no fault of ours. We weren't to blame, I thought to myself. I could let it go; I could set the burden down, I could be free.
Except, of course, that knowing something in your head is different than feeling it in your heart.
Jennifer Weiner
#47. Knowing something about the deep origins of humanity only adds to the remarkable fact of our existence: all of our extraordinary capabilities arose from basic components that evolved in ancient fish and other creatures.
Neil Shubin
#48. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Richard Feynman
#49. I know I have to stop. We all have to stop. Funny how knowing something's a bad idea doesn't make a difference.
Sara Ryan
#50. Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.
Confucius
#51. Over the weeks I am surprised to find that the more stories I record and the longer I carry them around, the lighter they become. I find out that the difference between knowing something and being able to talk about it is that there we many hands now, and we all share the burden
Brigid Pasulka
#52. There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.
Alison Croggon
#53. But you can't stop knowing something, can you?
Ellen Ullman
#54. If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience ... would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
Aberjhani
#55. I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood.
Barry Lopez
#56. Denial, as any addict in recovery will tell you, is not defined as knowing something and pretending you don't; it is failing to see it at all.
Jan Ellison
#57. Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.
Mark Twain
#58. Faith means being sure of what we hope for now. It means knowing something is real, this moment, all around you, even when you don't see it.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#59. I always feel a little guilty when I break bad news to someone, because that energy, of knowing something others don't, sort of puffs you up.
Jane Smiley
#60. Curiosity is the great motivator of an education. It's the how of learning: how we go from not knowing something to knowing it inside and out.
Zander Sherman
#61. Above all, meditation is about letting the mind be as it is and knowing something about how it is in this moment. It's not about getting somewhere else, but about allowing yourself to be where you already are.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#62. That is OK, not knowing something is not bad. What is bad is refusing to recognise that you are missing knowledge and refusing to learn.
Christos Tsotsos
#64. Torture: knowing something makes no sense, but doing it anyways.
Corey Ann Haydu
#65. I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
Vladimir Nabokov
#66. Immortality of the soul is something of such vital importance to us that one must have lost all feeling not to care about knowing the facts of the matter.
J.P. Moreland
#67. When I first started as an editorial cartoonist, I was terrified on a daily basis. Filling that hole the next day, knowing that tens of thousands of people were going to expect something funny. There is still that pressure, but you kind of learn how to cope with it a little better.
Steve Breen
#68. I'm not very good at time off. I'm happier when I'm working. It's something to do with not knowing what the next job is, so you appreciate it while it's there. I thrive on it, actually. But now I do it to please myself.
Emilia Fox
#69. You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.
Cesare Pavese
#70. There was something special about watching a manager and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting 'nose-to-nose' was part of my job description.
Doug Harvey
#71. But now I have something that blows that feeling out of the water. Every time I need a hit of joy, I think about you. You are my solace, Kate. Just knowing that you are in this world, everything makes sense. p. 275 Until I Die (ARC)
Amy Plum
#72. 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
#73. Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to
you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something
bigger and better than your current situation.
Brian Tracy
#74. I'm definitely playing next year. That's my ace in the hole. It's a little hard to sit back and watch the guys [this season], but it's easier knowing I've got something to look forward to.
Tedy Bruschi
#75. If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.
James Gray
#76. If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what's left is who you are
the Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality rather than something that is already defined.
Eckhart Tolle
#77. But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--"
~Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury
#78. I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without knowing about contemporary art. I wasn't thinking in terms of precious prints or archival quality; I didn't want the work to seem like a commodity.
Cindy Sherman
#79. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.
Hunter S. Thompson
#80. Isn't that wonderful? That feeling of not knowing too much about something ... Incomplete information ... Endless possibilities ... When you don't know much about something, it's the most exciting sensation.
-Kutsnetz in TALUS
Erol Ozan
#81. As far back as I can ever remember, without really knowing it I wanted to be an actor. I was always dressing up, you know, playing pretend, putting on mothers hats and things. I'm sure Freud would have something to say about that. It was very much in my blood.
Peter Cushing
#82. I've always thought that reviews and knowing how much your fans appreciate or don't like something, that's the sugar coating. I'm trying not to think about those things.
Chaz Bundick
#83. You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset.
Dan O'Brien
#84. Planning my food a bit helps me. Knowing what I'm going to be eating for lunch helps, instead of getting hungry and then looking for something.
Sasha Alexander
#85. It struck Harold afresh how life could change in an instant. You could be doing something so everyday - walking your partner's dog, putting on your shoes - and not knowing that everything you wanted you were about to lose.
Rachel Joyce
#86. Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what's going on, our ears don't have lids that can instinctively close against the words uttered, they can't hide from what they sense they're about to hear, it's always too late.
Javier Marias
#87. Pragmatists are sometimes more prone to illusion than dreamers; when they fall for something, they fall hard, not knowing how to protect themselves, while we dreamers are more practiced in surviving the disillusionment that follows when we wake up from our dreams.
Azar Nafisi
#88. Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different ... I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself completely did I become capable of giving myself to another, of finding joy in desire, pleasure in our love, power in this body no one else owns.
Dorothy Allison
#89. The thing that makes me feel most alive is knowing that there's something that I have to do that I'm afraid of.
India.Arie
#90. I guess that from the moment we are fed by our mothers, without even knowing it, we are caught in a net that brings us comfort, something we always feel when a special woman cooks for us. It is something unique and personal - it is something we want to keep for ourselves.
Jose Andres
#91. Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side
Kanye West
#92. Confidence comes from knowing what you're doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.
Tom Landry
#93. I will always have a child in me. That is what Pete [Jackson] has got, what a lot of the directors I have worked with have. It is about knowing how to have fun and that is something I always want to hold on to.
Saoirse Ronan
#94. We who are so lucky as to be born into the light - who see it every day and never think about it, we're blessed. We could have been born shadow souls who live and die in crimson darkness, never even knowing that somewhere there is something better.
L.J.Smith
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Sophie Heyman Uliano
#96. Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#97. If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.
Patrick Swayze
#98. The sadist in him loved knowing that he'd used her for his pleasure, while also expressing his disappointment in her, whereas, the man who wanted to build something with her felt remorse that he'd left her hanging last night in more ways than one.
Josie Leigh
#99. Every time I rap about being a big girl in a small world, it's doing a couple things: it's empowering my self-awareness, my body image, and it's also making the statement that we are all bigger than this; we're a part of something bigger than this, and we should live in each moment knowing that.
Lizzo
#100. [perfectionism leads to] a tendency to apologize preemptively for one's efforts, knowing from experience that there's sure to be something wrong with them.
William Westney
