Top 100 Without Knowing Quotes
#1. Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.
John Ortberg
#2. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Wisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.
Idries Shah
#3. You fall in love without knowing and break up when you knows everything.
Pratik Akkawar
#4. And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing worth mentioning about the subjects he represents, and that art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously.
Plato
#5. We should remember that people can go to Heaven without knowing much of
the Word of God, but they cannot go to Heaven without knowing Jesus Christ
as Savior.
Lee Roberson
#6. How she envied Diesel. He could love someone without knowing them.
Sonja Yoerg
#7. She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it.
George MacDonald
#8. Without knowing it, I had identified a subtle but important part of the healing process. There would be no peace for me, no life for me, until I learned to forgive life for what it had done to me, forgive others for still being alive, and eventually, forgive myself for being alive.
Neil Peart
#9. It is possible, without knowing it, to live at the margin of your own life.
Candia McWilliam
#10. All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by grinding lenses.
Heinrich Heine
#11. The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
William Hazlitt
#12. Rachel expected that God would give her a second son, but she did not know that this would cost her her life. Many of us have done the same thing. We prayed for a particular matter without knowing what it would cost to have our prayer answered.
Witness Lee
#13. In anxiety, however, we are threatened without knowing what steps to take to meet the danger. Anxiety is the feeling of being "caught," "overwhelmed"; and instead of becoming sharper, our perceptions generally become blurred or vague.
Rollo May
#14. Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.
Walter Darby Bannard
#15. To wait, to patiently sit in the dark without knowing what the outcome will be, to protect and respect that which has yet no clear form - all these are aspects of the womb.
Jalaja Bonheim
#17. If the actor gave his performance without knowing that he was in a play, then his tears would be real tears and his life a real life. And whenever I think of this pain and joy that rise up in me, I am carried away by the knowledge that the game I am playing is the most serious and exciting there is.
Albert Camus
#18. At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.
Ernest Hemingway,
#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. Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.
Kristen Stewart
#21. There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.
Virginia Woolf
#22. Far too many times in life we throw ourselves
in ships without knowing how stable they
are, or how deep is the water for it to float.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
#23. Without a conscious life-purpose a man is totally lost, drifting, adapting to events rather than creating events. Without knowing his life-purpose a man lives a weakend, impotent existence, perhaps even becoming even sexually impotent or prone to mechanical and disinterested sex.
David Deida
#24. Real life is so secret that not even I, who am dying of it, have been given the password, I am dying without knowing of what.
Clarice Lispector
#25. A book is like a large cemetery upon whose tombs one can no longer read the effaced names. On the other hand, sometimes one remembers well the name, without knowing if anything of the being, whose name it was, survives in these pages.
Marcel Proust
#26. People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.
William Hazlitt
#27. A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week, without knowing the gospel.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#28. A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
Oscar Wilde
#29. Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.
Assata Shakur
#30. Being religious without knowing the cross is like owning a Mercedes with no motor. Pretty package, but where is your power?
Max Lucado
#31. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
Anonymous
#32. Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.
Edward Abbey
#33. To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#34. Some have ideas. You know how old chickens scratch and gabble. That's how the tales started, all the gossip, the wondering, all the things people said without knowing and then believed, since they heard it with their own ears, from their own lips, each word.
Louise Erdrich
#35. So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.
Olympia Dukakis
#36. The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
Halle Berry
#37. As I helped him up, I felt him shake all over, so I asked him to forgive me, without knowing what for, but that was my lot, asking forgiveness, I even asked forgiveness of myself for being what I was, what it was my nature to be.
Bohumil Hrabal
#38. If you reach the age of twenty-five or thirty without knowing how to spell (TOTALLY, not TODILLY), or capitalize in the proper places (White House, not white-house), or write a sentence containing both a noun AND a verb, you're probably never going to know.
Stephen King
#39. most great truths are expressed in the common language of life; some understand them, but most people utter them without knowing how much they mean.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
#40. I love you without knowing how, why, or even from where
Patch Adams
#41. I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
Damian Loeb
#42. Without knowing anything else about him, i already know he'd be worth the hurt.
K. Bromberg
#43. I had hardly begun to read
I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said you can't
you can't you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don't write
W.S. Merwin
#45. I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.
Cassandra Clare
#46. We executed many people by firing squad without knowing if they were fully guilty. At times, the Revolution cannot stop to conduct much investigation; it has the obligation to triumph.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#47. The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.
Agnes Sligh Turnbull
#48. 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
#49. I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening, and get some sense, for a moment, that we are full of paradise without knowing it.
Thomas Merton
#50. To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.
Mencius
#51. The feet bound by leather souls feel not the humbleness of the sod. They carry the person without knowing the terrain below upon which they frequent trod.
Timothy W. Tron
#52. Just as hundreds of brushstrokes comprised a finished canvas, people were made up of a lifetime of experiences, both good and bad. And without knowing what someone had endured, it was impossible to truly know them - and accept them - for who they were.
Tamera Alexander
#54. Many European guys go to the N.H.L. at a young age, even without knowing English. But they quickly adapt to new conditions, another game, a new country. They are also young, receptive, can move mountains.
Jaromir Jagr
#55. No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time.
Frank Bolles
#56. I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why - not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for heaven - and I ask what this message of Christ means.
Emily Dickinson
#57. I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that I was really interested in was there, but I knew nothing, no education, no art education, no education beyond high school. It was extremely overwhelming and it still is.
John Howe
#58. Without knowing the cause of illness, any treatment must be considered a guess.
Richard Diaz
#59. How many people meet by chance and then separate as if nothing has happened, without knowing that they were perfect for each other?
Donato Carrisi
#60. Every good story needs a good ending. Don't write the beginning of a novel without knowing the end of it.
A.D.Y. Howle
#61. Nothing is more irritating than to hear honest writers protest about depravity when one is quite certain that they make these noises without knowing what they are protesting about.
Emile Zola
#62. We must know our own roles. We should also know the roles that others play, and the rules such roles follow. In this manner, social harmony is maintained. It is when we overstep our roles, or act without knowing them, that social anarchy ensues.
F. Sionil Jose
#63. Beauty draws the seer towards the person seen; it invites them to know and have confidence in that person even without knowing the person intimately.
Pia De Solenni
#64. God has said for us to know bad, as bad and good, as good. But while knowing the bad, there should not be the slightest abhorrence towards it and while knowing the good, there should not be slightest attachment towards it. Without knowing bad, as bad, the good cannot be known as good.
Dada Bhagwan
#65. Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them ... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#66. 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
#67. Is one changing all the time, then?' she asks. 'Am I changing - without knowing it?
Denis Mackail
#68. Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore.
Albert Einstein
#69. I think the meaning of life is life itself. We don't necessarily want to know what it is, but we want to live it. Hopefully, we'll go out fast without knowing it.
Mads Mikkelsen
#70. It is so easy to judge those around us and decide their value without knowing who they really are or what they truly represent.
George M. Gilbert
#71. So many people live life without knowing the life they are living. We must get a reasonable reason for living
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#72. I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.
Louisa May Alcott
#73. Trying to understand God's will for anything without reading the Bible is like jumping into the middle of a cricket match without knowing any of the rules and never having watched a game.
Vance C. Kessler
#74. Famous people steal my quotes all of the time without knowing; none of it is ever very interesting though.
Robert DeCoteau
#75. It was, however, in keeping with the way my uncle conducted his life that he should reach his destination without knowing the name of the goal.
Anthony Powell
#76. Once I got to know you, I would come to find it was that I wouldn't want to watch another sun rise or set without knowing you're mine. I don't have a lot to offer you yet, but without you, I'll never be anything. Together, we can do anything, and I promise to keep you safe for all of eternity.
Jody Morse
#77. A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is a remembrance of that time before our planet was so small. When this map was made, I thought, you could live without knowing where you were not living.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#78. I don't see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it's going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many chapters it will be and so forth.
John Barth
#79. Imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine.
Hector Berlioz
#80. I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. When you start to caricature a person,you can't do it without knowing the person. Take Laurel and Hardy for example; everybody can see Laurel doing certain things because they know Laurel.
Walt Disney
#81. To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#82. Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.
Pema Chodron
#83. Those who have known God without knowing their own wretchedness have not glorified him but themselves.
Blaise Pascal
#84. I am convinced that during bouts of insomnia, I have sometimes slept without knowing it.
Siri Hustvedt
#85. And I never ask what I'm doing the next day. I don't want to know what I'm doing tomorrow. It's much too overwhelming. So I just go day by day, without knowing.
Jennifer Lopez
#86. For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
Adam Gopnik
#87. 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
#88. Doeg, though without knowing how or why,
Made still a blundering kind of melody;
Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin,
Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in;
Free from all meaning whether good or bad,
And in one word, heroically mad.
John Dryden
#89. Questioning authority doesn't make you resistant; who should follow blindly without knowing the destination
LDarnell
#90. [Newton's calculations] entered the marrow of what we know without knowing how we know it.
Hermann Bondi
#91. I hate the man who eats without knowing what he's eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.
Charles Lamb
#92. All law must be subjective; the soil knows how to take a seed and make a plant from it; it does not know whether it is making a tomato or a potato ... It knows how to create without knowing what It creates.
Ernest Holmes
#93. We actually slander and dishonor God by our very eagerness to serve Him without knowing Him.
Oswald Chambers
#94. It is impossible to know God and His laws, without knowing His Word.
Sunday Adelaja
#95. To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.
Gautama Buddha
#96. When we possess something without knowing its value, we abuse it.
Sunday Adelaja
#97. Sometimes we dream of things that we've always wanted
of things that we have been searching for our whole lives without knowing it ... and other times we wake up and know what we have to do. I have to write ... so I do.
Cassandra Giovanni
#98. With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.
John Cusack
#99. But to expose the former faults of any person without knowing what their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable.
Jane Austen
#100. Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
Leo Tolstoy
