Quotes About Knowing

We knew each other so well by this point—knew each other in that honest, unmitigated way that people get to know you who meet you when you're still young. Before all the rest of it. Before it becomes both easier and harder to know yourself.

É terrível saber tudo sobre alguém quando já não queremos saber nada sobre ela há muito tempo.

He smiled back, but more like it was reflex. It never reached his eyes. They stayed cold and empty as a winter sky. Once the other marshals joined us he'd make his eyes sparkle, or fill with some emotion; he didn't bother when it was just us. We knew each other too well; there was no need to hide.

Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth.

Sak, pain, love are limited human experiences. and only those who know their own frontiers, those knows the life, the rest is just passing time.

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

It was the smile of a man who is able to see, to know and to create the glory of existence. It was the mocking, challenging smile of a brilliant intelligence.

We can claim to have begun to know someone only when they have substantially disappointed us.

transcendental phenomenology as a science of pure essential possibilities of knowing

journey from knowing to becoming is the journey of transformation from Ravana to Ram.

Things are much simpler here than we like. Not that we do not know God's commandments, but that we do not do them—and then gradually, as a consequence of such disobedience, we no longer know what is right—that is our predicament.

Self-denial means knowing only Christ, no longer knowing oneself. It means no longer seeing oneself, only him who is going ahead, no longer seeing the way which is too difficult for us. Self-denial says only: he is going ahead; hold fast to him.

Truth. .. it might make you sad. But somewhere deep inside of you, you know that it is truth. If you can but open yourself up, you know when things are true and when that they are not. For this is available to you.

In this century theres been much stress placed not upon what we know but on knowing that our methods are themselves questionableour Song of Songs is the Uncertainty Principle.

The soul knows everything. Be who you are and your life will transform forever.

Not to know what things in life require remedying is a crime... It leaves you at the mercy of events - it lets life manipulate you - instead of training you to manipulate life.

There is a finality to this moment. I know it, I just know it.

I'm pretty sure I at least said hello." Teasingly he says, "No, I'm pretty sure you didn't." He's right: I didn't. I was too flustered. Kind of like right now. IT must be that distance between knowing someone when you were a kid and seeing them now that you're both more grown-up, but still not all the way grown-up, and there are all these years and letters in between you, and you don't know how to act.

You know everything about me, even this,

But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

Actually, we are the worst for not letting go, for not valuing emptiness, randomness, for not seeing the value of not knowing.

Thought about the world is prior to thought about how to change the world. Accordingly, knowing-that is prior to knowing-how. Descartes was right and Ryle was wrong. Why, after all these years, does one still have to say these things?

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.

I'm sure there are aspects of my personality buried within me that will surface as soon as I know I am completely loved.