Quotes with knowing

Quotes 181 till 200 of 215.

  • John Locke Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Richard Bach To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
    Jonathan Livingston Seagull
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Ted Danson To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
    Ted Danson
    American actor, author and producer (1947 - )
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  • Jacob Bronowski To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Bryant H. McGill True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Baltasar Gracián True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • James Russell Lowell True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Don Herold Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.
    Don Herold
    American humorist, writer, illustrator, and cartoonist (1889 - 1966)
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  • Basil King Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.
    Basil King
    Canadian preacher and novelist (1859 - 1928)
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  • Dr. Jerome Brunner 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.
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  • Walter Lippmann We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Audre Lorde We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin We read advertisements to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Buzz Osborne We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I just thought this was an opportunity for us to make the kind of records that we wanted and make some money at the same time.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Bing Crosby We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.
    Bing Crosby
    American singer, comedian and actor (1903 - 1977)
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  • Georges Bernanos What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Marina Tsvetaeva What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden - the passion for the revealed.
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