Knowing Quotes

Your inner knowing is your only true compass.

My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.

I think it's very hard in this day and age to raise little girls with morals, ethics and values, and them knowing that they are precious creations and that they are important.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because she was wearing a mink, and I thought we should be taking a taxi. She just said, 'Who cares what people think?' and I remember sitting on that bus, being utterly embarrassed, but knowing somehow that she was totally correct.

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

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.

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.

I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

So already, you go from not having a job and thinking you're going to get fired after the pilot, to knowing that you've got a guaranteed job for 4 years.

There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.

One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you.

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.

Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.

Knowing how people will use something is essential.

There are great municipal investments out there, but on a blanket basis you have to be really careful about knowing what cash flows are supporting your investments.

Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.

If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.