Quotes About Knowing

Our individual consciousnesses were sieves of the divine. We could only know what our minds could encompass safely.

FEELING is so different from KNOWING. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

I didn't mind promising not to read any more like it, but it was agonizing to give back that book without knowing how it turned out. But my love for Miss Stacy stood the test and I did. It's really wonderful, Marilla, what you can do when you're truly anxious to please a certain person.

People like me spend years learning the techniques of meditation. But you're a poet, and poets are born knowing the language of angels.

If you accept any position of authority you have to know when to break or circumvent a rule. It's the knowing when that's important.

But our fear and our rejection does not take away from truth, and truth is what the Bible instructs us to know in order that we may be free.

I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the soul. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true.

The knowing of joy and the knowing of pain are

Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.

who seek to know Him fully, as He has already blessed

blame. I was as terrified as anyone, knowing

A patient may say that he has spent certain months suffering major depression, but this is a way of imposing measurement on the immeasurable. All that one can really say for certain is that one has known major depression, and that one does or does not happen to be experiencing it at any given present moment.

Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all.

You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.

Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all.

The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it — that we all know, God, that we know, that we know, we know, we know.

Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was? Fragile? Volger looked about. I hadn't thought so, but now I find you brooding in a bathroom. This doesn't speak well of your sturdiness.

The intention of Scripture is to exercise our faith, that we may know we are protected by God's hand, and that we may not be subject to harm from Satan and wicked men. . .

There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more if future fortunes were known before!

It is that sequence of first knowing and then experiencing, that will allow us to treasure God's love.3

To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not trying to know.

Memories were the markers of the journey through life. It was necessary to know where you had come from. Only then could you know where you were going.