Quotes About Knowing What Is Right

#1. Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

Aristotle.

#2. Knowing what is right is not the same as doing what is right.

Christine Caine

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

#4. What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn't lead to wisdom? And what's wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?

Iain Banks

#5. What you think is right isn't the same as knowing what is right.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#6. It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right.

Lyndon Johnson

#7. On a practical level, there are two vital steps to ethical behavior:
knowing what is right and doing it.

Michael Josephson

#8. Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#9. Humanity is a messy business, where knowing what is right doesn't necessarily preclude you from doing what is wrong.

Lisa Gardner

#10. Stress comes from knowing what is right and doing what is wrong

Larry Winget

#11. you know what is and what is not right. All men do, though they may spend their years trying to bury that knowing, burying it beneath words, hatreds, lusts, sorrow, or any of the other bricks from which they build their lives.

Mark Lawrence

#12. To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right and what's wrong.

Tibor Kalman

#13. There are two kinds of courage. There's the kind you get from knowing that what you're doing is right. And there's the kind you get from knowing its hopeless and wrong, and just not giving a damn.

Gareth L. Powell

#14. 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

#15. I try to be prepared for the moment, through understanding, and being warmed up, knowing all about chords and scales, so I don't even have to think and I can get right to what it is I want to say.

Pat Metheny

#16. 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

#17. You know home isn't really about what color your couch is or what you hang on the wall... Home is about knowing you are in the right place with the right people.

Jay Crownover

#18. Success in walking is not to let your right foot know what your left foot doeth. Your heart must furnish such music that in keeping time to it your feet will carry you around the globe without knowing it.

John Burroughs

#19. 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

#20. In the awareness that we can always be wrong, and therefore ready at any moment to change direction if a new track appears; but knowing also that if we are good enough we will get it right and will find what we are seeking. This is the nature of science. The

Carlo Rovelli

#21. It isn't always easy to act on what's in your head instead of what's in your heart. And it isn't always right to. The whole trick to knowing what to do is deciding when to make yourself listen to your head, and when it's okay to just follow your feelings.

Steven Brust

#22. True maturity is in attitude and a true attitude is maturity.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#23. Once you're lost, you panic. You're in total despair, not knowing what to do. I hate it when that happens. Sex can be a real pain that way, 'cause when you get in the mood all you can think about is what's right under your nose - that's sex, all right.

Haruki Murakami

#24. A Way Out
Do you know what it is like to lie in bed awake;
with thoughts to haunt you every night, of all your past mistakes.
Knowing sleep will set it right - if you were not to wake.

Lang Leav

#25. Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

Alison Gopnik

#26. This "knowing what to do" ... is a matter of having the right purpose, the purpose appropriate to the situation in hand ... The one who "knows what to do" is the one on whom you can rely to make the best shot at success, whenever success is possible.

Roger Scruton

#27. wisdom is great, but sometimes, those who think they are wiser than others can become the otherwise

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#28. I sincerely believe that we not only have the right to know what is good and what is evil; we have the duty to acquire that knowledge if we hope to assume responsibility for our own lives and those of our children. Only by knowing the truth can we be set free.

Alice Miller

#29. A choice with no consequences has no value. Making a choice knowing there will be consequences, and being willing to bear them, is what distinguishes the right choices from the wrong ones.

James A. Owen

#30. Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#31. Knowing the difference between right and wrong sometimes did not serve to clarify much of anything. Just because a man is able to draw his line in the sand, it doesn't mean he'll know what to do when his only course of action requires crossing it.

Graham Moore

#32. Knowing what to do is the easy part. Finding the right person to do it with is a whole lot harder. - Josh Golden

Susan Mallery

#33. Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.

William Kingdon Clifford

#34. I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.

Siobhan Davies

#35. Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#36. I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives. It all depends on a combination of circumstances. If all the various cosmic thingummys fuse at the same moment, and the right spark is struck, there's no knowing what one mightn't do.

Laurie R. King

#37. When you have a good connection with the field of consciousness, you can use your intuition freely and enjoy a continuous feeling of knowing what is best and right to do in a given situation.

Jorgen Bonde Eriksen

#38. Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.

Jodi Picoult

#39. Knowing the songs - and I'm still learning - lets one envision birds you can hear but can't see. And as always, the ability to envision what is just out of sight is more important than merely seeing what's right in front of you.

Carl Safina

#40. For me, performance is about forgetting what I'm wearing. Just putting it on and knowing it's right.

Debbie Harry

#41. I think that's becoming the key to where the whole idea of art and culture are going nowadays anyway, is the idea of curation. Knowing what you like. That's sort of the future right now. Molding something, whether it be a roster on a label, or your blog, or a song, or your DJ set.

A-Trak

#42. Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do. Potter Stewart,

Max Allan Collins

#43. A big part of finding the right resources is knowing what to look for and what to avoid.

Matthew Lesko

#44. Ne wonders what it is like to burn, staring at one's ending right around the corner, and yet not knowing how the end will come, when one will be fully consumed by the void.

Teo Yi Han

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. It is all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you will get to the right end.

Elizabeth Moon

#48. 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

#49. Sometimes it takes a while to find that perfect balance between knowing who you are, what your sound is, and building the right team to make that happen. Once it all really comes together and it makes sense, both for the audience and your fans, there's no stopping you.

Judith Hill

#50. Right now, it's really about my fans knowing that whatever I believed spiritually at the time is what I believed. I just wouldn't deliberately lie to them just to save my image.

Brandy Norwood