Top 100 Quotes About Knowing Things
#1. Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.
Nami Mun
#2. 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
#4. They'd been impressed by facts about Skelly instead of by him. And knowing things about someone is not the same as knowing him.
Tim Kreider
#5. A lot of what people did and said when they "predicted" things, Morey now realized, was phony: pretending to know things rather than actually knowing things. There were a great many interesting questions in the world to which the only honest answer was, "It's impossible to know for sure".
Michael Lewis
#6. You like it. Knowing things about people. It makes you feel powerful.
Sara Wolf
#7. That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't.
Claire Keegan
#8. Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.
Terry Pratchett
#9. It is strong proof of men knowing things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#10. When you're in love, you're capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the the mysteries.
Paulo Coelho
#11. I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures.
Action Bronson
#12. You used to say a man knows things and when he stops knwing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#13. 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
#14. Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. That's one form of magic, of course."
"What, just knowing things?"
"Knowing things that other people don't know.
Terry Pratchett
#16. You don't have to be psychic to end up knowing things you were a lot happier not knowing.
Jordan Castillo Price
#18. Just having the internet is a weird and dangerous thing because people become accustomed to knowing things when they want to know them and not having to work for it. I definitely see the value in not knowing everything and having mystery in life and mystery in people.
Adam Driver
#19. How does knowing 'things could be worse' than what I already deem awful make me feel any better? You mean I could sink even lower? Oh joy!
Richelle E. Goodrich
#20. A person with a mind is bound to be filled with conceptions. These conceptions prevent him from knowing things directly, so a person with a mind shall never really know.
Liezi
#21. Knowledge is not predetermined by heredity; it is not predetermined in the things around us - in knowing things around him the subject always adds to them.
Jean Piaget
#22. When you meditate and still your mind, you will gain the wisdom of knowing things in this world, in other worlds and beyond worlds - it just comes to you.
Frederick Lenz
#23. Thomas was sick of being accused of knowing things.
James Dashner
#24. And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.
Plato
#25. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.
Richard Feynman
#26. When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.
Paulo Coelho
#27. I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better.
Nicholas Haslam
#28. You think knowing things will solve your private little griefs?
Kiana Davenport
#29. Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?
Carlos Castaneda
#30. Prompt to move but firm to wait - knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.
William Wordsworth
#31. We know in Life have always people that can do or knowing things better but the Truth is never better or worse, but a Fact of the True.
Jan Jansen
#32. I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
Farrah Fawcett
#33. The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are ...
Matthew Arnold
#34. That's the trouble with knowing things: you can't un-know them. Once you let yourself look at them, or say them aloud, they become real.
Melinda Salisbury
#35. How did my parents live before texting? Before the internet? I'm used to knowing things and all of this unknowing is driving me mad.
Stephanie Perkins
#36. I didn't want to be a virgin. That much I knew. I didn't want to feel like the immature prude who knew nothing about sex. I hated not knowing things. The trouble was ... as much as I didn't want to be a virgin, I also didn't want to have sex.
Cora Carmack
#37. The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of the meditation knowing things ... things that are inexpressible.
Frederick Lenz
#39. By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist.
Miyamoto Musashi
#40. There's never any knowing - how am I to put it? - which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it for ever. - E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
Zadie Smith
#41. Wisdom is having things right in your life
and knowing why.
William Stafford
#42. A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn't matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.
Laura Riding
#43. Life wants you to know that people are more important than things.
Bryant McGill
#44. I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.
Steven Soderbergh
#45. My mother had faith in me, had more faith in me than I had in myself, and knowing that she did made me try to find faith. She believed in trying things.
Rosemary Mahoney
#46. Things that we do without knowing why are we doing them are usually the best things that we do.
Minhal Mehdi
#47. I train jiu jitsu because I love jiu jitsu. But I also train knowing that my practice in this art will allow me better practice in any art. If you have learned one thing, you have learned all things, because you have learned how to learn. I can think of no more worthwhile pursuit of education.
Chris Matakas
#48. Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.
Francois Lelord
#49. 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
#51. One of the most human things that you can do is reach out for the stars knowing that you might not ever touch them; we are all perfectly imperfect, but to live knowing so is to be a fulfilled human being.
Oli Anderson
#52. Ben West points out that even from a selfish perspective, earning to give allows you to have things that people believe make them happy, like money and a high-status job, while still getting the fulfillment that comes from knowing you are helping to make the world a better place.
Peter Singer
#53. [ ... ] knowing his mood was miserable from lack of sleep [ ... ], knowing he was unfair [ ... ], knowing all these things but unable to stop the dark torrent of his thoughts.
Steven Erikson
#54. People form close friendships by knowing private things about each other, and the reason most people don't make close friends is because they're too embarrassed to share anything really important about themselves.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#55. You cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing fear.
Maia Wojciechowska
#56. Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.
Jean Vanier
#57. Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on.
Gloria Gaither
#58. I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better.
Vincent Van Gogh
#60. I only ask to go where the Lord would have me go, and only to receive what the Lord would have me receive, knowing that more important than sight is the witness that one may have by the witness of the Holy Ghost to his soul that things are so and that Jesus is the Christ, a living personage.
Harold B. Lee
#61. [R]emain open to not knowing, perhaps allowing yourself to come to the point of admitting, "I don't know," and then experimenting with relaxing a bit into this not knowing instead of condemning yourself for it. After all, in this moment, it may be an accurate statement of how things are for you.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#62. I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.
Louise Penny
#63. Just because someone doesn't act or look unhappy doesn't mean their lives are perfect." He raises his eyebrows. "There's this method of dealing with things that involves keeping your chin up. Knowing whatever crap you're dealing with right now isn't going to last forever. All things pass.
Kelley York
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home.
Sharon Salzberg
#67. Wisdom comes from knowing the order of things ... and you are the first order of your business.
Elaine Marolakos Edelson
#68. Science can explain what exists in the world, how things work, and what might be in the future. By definition, it has no pretensions to knowing what should be in the future. Only religions and ideologies seek to answer such questions.
Yuval Noah Harari
#69. Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.
Orson Scott Card
#70. Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.
Walter Savage Landor
#71. My approach is I put God first; I say "God willing" all the time. The only way things will change is with God. So knowing that I can't really change anything, I'm just going to satire it.
Lupe Fiasco
#72. We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#73. Knowing Gary, he probably caught
sight of one of those thick, furry sausage things they have on the end of the ropes one day
and just couldn't resist giving it a tug.
J.L. Merrow
#74. Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.
Hank Green
#75. If thou art able, O stranger, to find out all these things and gather them together in your mind, giving all the relations, thou shalt depart crowned with glory and knowing that thou hast been adjudged perfect in this species of wisdom.
Ivor Bulmer-Thomas
#76. I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.
Jennifer Capriati
#77. Knowing and feeling were two very different things.
R.K. Lilley
#78. 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
#79. We cannot be judge and jury, the hardest thing is to understand the unknown and in knowing the hidden all things are revealed giving truth.
God is watcher during all moments and at the end the real Judge.
Zarina Bibi
#80. Doubting things go ill often hurts more
Than to be sure they do; for certainties
Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing,
The remedy then born.
William Shakespeare
#81. To be patient is simply to be completely open to each moment, accepting it in its fullness, knowing that, like the butterfly, things can only unfold in their own time.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#82. Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change.
Albert Einstein
#83. To truly live by faith, one must be willing to live in the tension of not knowing. Not understanding certain things. Not having all the answers. A person must walk humbly, bearing the mystery of a God who far surpasses any human capacity to fully define Him.
Jamie George
#84. The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
Gail Collins
#85. The hardest part of changing things is knowing how much needs changing,
Martina Boone
#86. But knowing a name and being offered a name are two very different things. Names can be very powerful things...and it is a pleasure to officially meet you.
Piper Alexander
#87. 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
#88. although it may seem obsessive I began noticing things and made note of it, knowing what I knew gave us an advantage.
Charon Lloyd-Roberts
#89. Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers.
Veronica Roth
#90. Islam deals not only with what man must and must not do, but also with what he needs to know. In other words, Islam is both a way of acting and doing things and a way of knowing.
Osman Bakar
#91. Knowing yourself, knowing where you want to get, combining those things gives you the pragmatic steps.
John Amaechi
#92. Beyond everything else, that's one of the things that kept us going, that keeps me going, you know, the eternal love, knowing that I am in the love of the all and all love is in me.
Jimmy Cliff
#93. It's kind of hard for you to be doing huge things and still be knowing what's happening on the street level.
ASAP Ferg
#94. I'm always going to look and refer to things and remember things differently than perhaps a real or honest viewer can. I'm tainted with knowing too much. But I still very much love it.
Kevin D. Williamson
#95. One of the things that makes folks even more jolly is knowing there're people who ain't.
Terry Pratchett
#96. Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to wear a Chairman Mao button, or do a lot of these things with out knowing what's behind it, and what it really means.
Lester Bangs
#97. Fact is, knowing what you want and knowing who you are ... those are two separate things. One is complicated. The other isn't. You're trying to take something simple and make it hard, and there's enough hard things in life without you adding more for yourself.
Cora Carmack
#98. Knowing your intention is key in all things. If you want to meditate, it's important to know why you want to meditate.
Lodro Rinzler
#99. Have you ever wanted something so much that you would do anything to have it - even knowing that it was bad for you?"
"Of course," Adam replied. "All truly enjoyable things in life are invariably bad for you - and they are even better when done to excess.
Lisa Kleypas
#100. She had this uncanny sense of seeing things the way they were instead of the way you'd want them to be, of knowing me better than I knew myself. She could sniff out the truth even if it hurt.
Mike Gayle
