Quotes with knowing

  • It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
  • Knowing that you're the one who's been rejected, God it makes you feel isolated. I defy anybody not to be a bit upset. I felt as though I'd walked into the house trailing all this baggage.
  • A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
  • Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
  • We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.
  • Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.
  • And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.
  • A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
  • Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.
  • ''To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is.'' ''He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.''
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  • Walter Benjamin The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Lao-Tzu Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Jane Austen A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either that Bob would flog Billy, or Billy would flog Bob.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Joseph De Maistre False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • James Elroy Flecker For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.
    James Elroy Flecker
    English poet (1884 - 1915)
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  • Emile Durkheim From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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  • Buddha I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Terry Pratchett Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.
    Terry Pratchett
    English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works (1948 - 2015)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
    Letters (1973)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Lin Yü-tang The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.
    Lin Yü-tang
    Chinese writer (1895 - 1976)
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  • Confucius Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Richard Bach ''To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is.'' ''He said, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.''
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Ansel Adams A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • John Milton A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Barbara Cartland A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • James Russell Lowell A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Albert Einstein According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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