Knowing Quotes

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

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.

It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.

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.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

Thankfully, I have a background as an actor, and you learn how to live in that world of not knowing what's going to happen next.

I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.

One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what's good and what's not good.

I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have.

It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.

I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I'm the same character, but I'm having more fun this season because I'm doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing.

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.

I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.

Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.

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

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Part of being married is knowing when your husband needs your support.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

Joni Mitchell seems destined to remain in a state of permanent dissatisfaction - always knowing what she would like to do, always more depressed when it's done.

It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Everybody is different. Some people like to share more. I just wouldn't want to spoil someone's opinion of me by them knowing me as a person instead of an artist.

I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did.

It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in knowing that's as much as a listener can take.

Being an entertainer includes knowing how to connect with an audience.

I think the joy of wanting to direct is having that nervous anxiety knowing your film is about to be shown and you're sitting right there with everyone.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Your inner knowing is your only true compass.

I came here knowing nobody. I worked clubs as a singer and even the doors a few times before I landed some TV roles.

You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.

Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.

There is something about street dogs, about rescues; they have this knowing sense about them.

Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

When we love and make loving commitments, we create families and communities within which people can grow and take risks, knowing that hands will be there to catch them should they fall.

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.

John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.