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Quotes About Knowing

Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it's a negative importance, it's the importance of a blank sheet of paper. I can know because I don't count. I feel singled out, but also bereft.
~ Margaret Atwood
Temptation comes next. At the Center, temptation was anything much more than eating and sleeping. Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you, Aunt Lydia used to say. Maybe
~ Margaret Atwood
Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know.
~ W. H. Auden
The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
It is very scary to think mechanically about someone you know. That means that the second time you meet a person is useless. Which I tend to believe anyway.
~ Francesco Clemente
Who knows about another's love? The more you love the more you know the burnt out loss of love, the more you heed the silence of unknowing in the face of another's spiritual bondage.
~ Anne Rice
Love. Who knows about another's love? The more you love the more you know the burnt out loss of love, the more you heed the silence of unknowing in the face of another's spiritual bondage.
~ Anne Rice
Once again, he smiled at me so knowingly, with such a quiet air of triumph.
~ Anne Rice
1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion. 2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done. 3. There is no editing stage. 4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it. 5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
~ Seth Godin
It's not your fault. You had no way of knowing I'd traded my soul. It's not exactly how I start out conversations. Hi, I'm Kyrian. I have no soul. What about you? (Kyrian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.
~ E. M. Forster
You have to become that infinite formless creation, which is life, to know it. It cannot be known in an intellectual sense. That is enlightenment.
~ Frederick Lenz
Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool,' I answered.
~ John Green
We can all live with doubts. It's the knowing that breaks us. Iron House
~ John Hart
You've got that look about you, like you've seen more than you should have.
~ John Larkin
And now I will tell you. It is nearly two years ago since I have known Mr. Browning. Mr. Kenyon wished to bring him to see me five years ago, as one of the lions of London who roared the gentlest and was best worth my knowing; but I refused then, in my blind dislike to seeing strangers.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Reality as one knew it was what claimed one's allegiance. Deepening experience might change one's conception of it but until that happened the life one knew was the life one had to live.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
Such a God cannot be found out by searching. He can be known only as He is revealed to the heart by the Holy Spirit through the Word.
~ Arthur W. Pink
Religion of your upbringing is like a cloak -- you must know how it is made in order to take it off.
~ baba hari das ii
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
~ Andre Maurois
I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.
~ Stephen Root
We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
Knowing is not enough. Loving is the best part of knowing. — Joseph Compaine —
~ Gary Chapman