Knowing Quotes

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

I've always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew.

If I was coming into the business today, I wouldn't be in it. Knowing what I know, absolutely not.

I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.

I just assumed the world was full of solo percussionists. I couldn't find sticks or music or anything where I was, but that was expected because there was nothing there anyway. And I think that was possibly the greatest asset for me, just not knowing.

In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need.

If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.

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.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet.

Aristotle was 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.

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

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.

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

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.

You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.

Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away.

You have to know what you own. You have to really do your homework in terms of knowing what supports your bonds.

Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.

I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.

A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.

It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.

You know, you don't work 30 something years in this business without knowing how to push yourself. So, I just kept pushing myself and pushing myself. The other thing that happens is when your hormones get out of whack your emotions come up.