Quotes with knowing

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  • Henry David Thoreau Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bill Flores Medical care is one of the only sectors in which Americans are asked to make significant, long-term decisions without knowing the exact price of those decisions up front. Americans deserve to make informed decisions about their medical options.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Stephen Leacock Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Samuel Johnson Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Robert Benchley 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
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Blanche Lincoln My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • George Sand No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Lois Horowitz Not having the information you need when you need it leaves you wanting. Not knowing where to look for that information leaves you powerless. In a society where information is king, none of us can afford that.
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  • Toni Morrison Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Emily Dickinson Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Oscar Wilde Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Buzz Osborne Now I have never met a group of people who hate music more than professional roadies, and it is clearly obvious that 99.9 percent of them know nothing at all about music. Nothing. I find this to be quite strange, really. It's like someone who works in a bakery knowing nothing about baking.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Alan Watts Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Benjamin Hoff One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear Superior, and will not likely be suspected of Not Knowing Something.
    The Tao of Pooh
    Benjamin Hoff
    American author (1946 - )
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  • Alfred Adler Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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