Quotes About Knowing Where You Are Going

#1. So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#2. Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there.

Ken Blanchard

#3. Knowing where you are going takes the uncertainty out of getting there

Anne Graham Lotz

#4. You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He'd saved for you, the sea.

Yasmin Mogahed

#5. Perhaps that same concept applied to people as well. Did we love them more when we knew their full story? How they came to be who and what they were? Or was the mystery what kept us coming back for more, slowly enticing us, knowing that once the truth was out, the appeal would be lost?

Amber Lynn Natusch

#6. The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having the mind move in unanticipated directions, there would be no invention.

Donald Barthelme

#7. Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing.

Wang Yangming

#8. Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.

Paulo Coelho

#9. Somewhere, Charles Darwin nodded and smiled a knowing smile.

David Wong

#10. 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

#11. It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language.

Billy Collins

#12. If I had to sit in Heaven forever, knowing that there are these people, millions and millions- probably billions of people, suffering these eternal horrible torments and there was nothing I could ever do for them, that, to me, would be Hell.

Richard Carrier

#13. I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.

Bobby Bowden

#14. There's not a word I can say to you that you have not already though of, Mamah... There are ways to hold the thing up in the light and see a hundred facets, and knowing you, you've found a hundred and one.

Nancy Horan

#15. If understanding is impossible, knowing is imperative, because what happened could happen again.

Primo Levi

#16. I have DM'd games where the players smoked pot, where they have cooked fondue, where they've performed yoga and where they've slipped out for ten minutes (without my knowing) to have quick sex in the bathroom during a game break.

Alexis D. Smolensk

#17. Knowing your purpose prepares you for eternity.

Rick Warren

#18. This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation.

Aleister Crowley

#19. Courage comes from knowing that fear is a false perception.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

Frank Herbert

#21. 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

#22. My lesson from Soros is to start every meeting at my boutique by convincing everyone that we are a bunch of idiots who know nothing and are mistake-prone, but happen to be endowed with the rare privilege of knowing it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#23. The real me isn't someone you see but someone you know.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#24. 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

#25. Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.

Glen Duncan

#26. It seems to me that so much unhappiness in life comes not from a lack of answers, but from a lack of knowing the right questions to ask.

Rita Zoey Chin

#27. Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.

Harlan Coben

#28. Wisdom is having things right in your life
and knowing why.

William Stafford

#29. His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?"
But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.

Lois Lowry

#30. she didn't get the subtle nuances of female friendship that other women seemed to have been born knowing. She

Michelle Major

#31. I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart.

Rabindranath Tagore

#32. Taking a step without knowing the end result is the only way we develop faith and not only this, it's a practice that connects us with a power greater than ourselves.

Louise Hay

#33. What use is it that knowledge mounts? It's knowing something good that counts.

Friedrich Von Logau

#34. Unlike people of my generation, my children and my grandchildren have grown up living with, knowing, people who were outwardly gay and lesbian. And they have learned that they're just like us ... And when you see that they're just like us, the rationale for discrimination melts away.

David Boies

#35. I remember my first lecture on my first day in evolutionary biology, how populations and species change. I sat thinking, 'Why doesn't everyone know this?' I look back on it almost in horror: I came so close to not knowing how exciting our world is.

Elise Andrew

#36. I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it's at its extreme. And that's what they end up knowing about it.

Edwidge Danticat

#37. In truth we are not separate from each other or from the world, from the whole earth, the sun or moon or billions of stars, not separate from the entire universe. Listening silently in quiet wonderment, without knowing anything, there is just one mysteriously palpitating aliveness.

Toni Packer

#38. To state this more succinctly, awareness of the body's state influences how we organize our lives. Knowing your body strengthens your mind.

Daniel J. Siegel

#39. What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English
SWELL and LOUSY.

Vicki Baum

#40. I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

George H. W. Bush

#41. Original sin was always never knowing when to stop, sweetheart.

Sarah Caulfield

#42. What do you think will be more effective when it comes to succeeding, believing you can or KNOWING you will? Let today be the last day you took timid steps of belief and start taking confident steps of purpose-driven knowing!

Steve Maraboli

#43. Physicians can't really dictate our protocols. They can inform us to the extent that they can as to what would best serve us, because we're not medical geniuses, no human being is, but intrinsically there is inside of each one of us, the knowing of what's going on.

Maya Tiwari

#44. Descartes, the Frenchman, had little trouble knowing that he existed.

N.D. Wilson

#45. 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

#46. I do not understand, but I will not let her die knowing anything but my love.

Pierce Brown

#47. The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#48. Nothing feels worse than knowing that people didn't see your movie. That they wanted to and the critics loved it but nobody knew where it was because it didn't do what it was supposed to do opening weekend. It used to be that independents were allowed to stay in the theaters, build word of mouth.

Allison Anders

#49. If you mean to unhinge me, young Jhonis, you will need to be more convincing. Allow me to demonstrate. You are a surface-crawling, poisonless bug who means to frighten a wolf. For I will trample you beneath my toe without ever knowing you existed.

Quoleena Sbrocca

#50. Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

Confucius

#51. The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

Sydney J. Harris

#52. I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart.

Jim Butcher

#53. Imagine learning at such a young age that your very appearance - your very identity - is enough to trigger such confusion and animosity. Imagine knowing that people will hate you for no reason other than you are who you are

Thomas Beatie

#54. 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

#55. For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is a Charlie Chaplin movie. The hard part is knowing the difference.

Carol Tavris

#56. 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

#57. Few realizations are as demoralizing as knowing that the only thing standing between you and what you want is yourself,

Kate Bolick

#58. Life wants you to know that people are more important than things.

Bryant McGill

#59. The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely.

Immanuel Kant

#60. She caught me looking at her.
'What?' she asked.
'Your lightness,' I said, hardly knowing what I was saying. 'It's disarming.

David Levithan

#61. All the activities that are happening in this world are indeed done through the intellect; there is no need for Knowledge there. Knowledge is indeed in Knowledge (Knowing). And whatever actions are done through the intellect, the Knowledge 'Knows' it too.

Dada Bhagwan

#62. As metal rang on metal, some inner part of Jem, some part that had been lost without his even knowing it was lost, felt the pleasure of fighting together with Will one last time.

Cassandra Clare

#63. Knowing someone is not enough
You need to understand them
Because knowing and understanding are different

Subhasis Das

#64. The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Rabindranath Tagore

#65. Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Bertrand Russell

#66. It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly there is a flash of recognition and the embers of kinship glow. There is an awakening between you, a sense of ancient knowing.

John O'Donohue

#67. The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours.

Robin Hobb

#68. Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Woody Allen

#69. Knowing that history carried itself in the body and soul, not a physical location, not in letters burned in a fire or a magazine trapped beneath the rubble,

Kristen Simmons

#70. 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

#71. And knowing my luck ... that'll be the Engineer sign for Your mom's a skank.

Karen Traviss

#72. The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad it's there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isn't dead.

Lynda Barry

#73. Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.

Johnny Depp

#74. Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.

Bob Goff

#75. How frustrating to think you can be lost to yourself. And yet how often it is that a stranger stares back at you from the mirror. Maybe in truth we never see ourselves as clearly as the thousands of eyes that daily take us in.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#76. Talk about not knowing other people - why, when you came right down to it, you didn't even know yourself!

Robert Bloch

#77. Maybe someday I'll have that, bit it won't be with Ridge, and knowing that diminishes whatever ray of hope shone through the storm of my week.

Colleen Hoover

#78. I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.

Youth Lagoon

#79. Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.

Robin McKinley

#80. It was a double jolt for me. The jolt of seeing my father slowly die, the jolt of knowing that I was diabetic and could meet the same fate if I didn't take care of myself.

Dan Hill

#81. The though revives in him the oldest memory of his life. A child sees a door closing: without knowing who it is that has just left, he senses it is someone he loves with all his tiny, still mute being.

Andrei Makine

#82. It's not about winning or losing a competition, it's about beating the doubt from within yourself and knowing at the end of each day you are one step closer to your goals.

Jonathan Horton

#83. No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too.

Nas

#84. I felt especially grateful now having the red Moleskine to confide in. Just knowing a Snarl was on the other side to read it - to possibly care - inspired my pen to move quickly in answer to his question.

Rachel Cohn

#85. Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

Eckhart Tolle

#86. Real success in the kingdom of God is not about being strong and looking good and knowing all the right answers. It's about continually yielding oneself to Jesus and determining to take purposeful little steps of obedience, and the ragged reality that it's all about God and His grace at work in us.

Mary Beth Chapman

#87. The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to 1, they wield power, they write legislation. When you have scientifically illiterate adults, you have undermined the very fabric of what makes a nation wealthy and strong.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#88. There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not, and those who do not much care about knowing, but care very greatly about being reputed as knowing.

Samuel Butler

#89. I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very prominent if you reinforce them.

Mayim Bialik

#90. Not cocky overconfidence that comes from collecting biased information and ignoring uncertainties, but the real confidence that comes from knowing you've made the best decision that you could.

Chip Heath

#91. The house didn't feel the same; it wasn't the same. The eeriness of that night permeated the walls and the suffocating warmth trapped in those walls. And I stood there, waiting for my feet to think, to move, knowing that they would decide to do just that. They had come this far.

C.C. Wyatt

#92. President Bush admitted that the United States went to war in Iraq based on bad intelligence. But he says knowing what we know now he would still do it again. So at least we're learning from our mistakes.

Jay Leno

#93. The only way one can really understand what we are is by knowing yourself.

Nirmala Srivastava

#94. He knows he will be born again,
And start fresh anew.

Dejan Stojanovic

#95. Griff held his breath, waiting for it, knowing the axe would fall and he'd start dying as soon as he walked out the fucking door, and Dante would just grin and joke and try to forget what they had done together in this room.

Damon Suede

#96. If she wanted to go back to Boston so damn bad, she should just do it. He said this knowing full well she wouldn't, for it was the particular curse of the Whiting men that their wives remained loyal to them out of spite. By

Richard Russo

#97. I am a Christian. I know I am a Christian, knowing that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior.

Ronnie Milsap

#98. I think my biggest learning experience is that it's okay to be who you are - you don't have to exactly fit the mold of what people think a certain kind of career is. I think that discovery - of really knowing who I am and being okay with that and loving myself - was amazing.

Dree Hemingway

#99. Knowing that we can control our own behaviour makes it more likely that we will.

Peter Singer

#100. And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer.

Jean-Francois Lyotard