Knowing Quotes

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

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

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

As an actress, there's nothing worse than not knowing your cues.

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.

Breaking the [Enigma] code gave the Allies the advantage of knowing what the enemy was proposing and planning. There's no more important 'spook' item for a museum or private collector to own.

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

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?

We all want to support children and children's health-insurance programs. But not knowing what the terms and conditions are causes us concern.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.

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

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

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.

I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.