Knowing Quotes - page 4

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. (Oscar Wilde)
She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted. View quote
David Brin
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. View quote
Herbert Hoover
Knowing how to keep a friend is more important than gaining a new one. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. View quote
William Faulkner
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. View quote
Ray Bradbury
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout. View quote
Jonathan Swift
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore. View quote
Edward de Bono
The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet, and of the Devil's party without knowing it. View quote
William Blake
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. (Carl Jung)
If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it? View quote
Edward Bernays
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. View quote
James Russell Lowell
To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. View quote
Mary Oliver
That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present. View quote
Annie Besant
When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on. View quote
Warren Buffett
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. View quote
André Gide
Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings. View quote
Victor Hugo
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me, From mine own library with volumes that; I prize above my dukedom. View quote
William Shakespeare
If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first. View quote
Dan Abnett
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it- namely, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. View quote
Mark Twain
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke