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Quotes About Knowing

Reassurance is such a sad, mad thing. Deep inside, everyone knows the truth.
~ Michel Faber
The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.
~ Milan Kundera
That's what I love about the mockumentary style, is the added thing of people knowing they are on-camera, which changes your behavior. That's why we sometimes do what we call spy shots.
~ Paul Feig
Certainty and similar states of 'knowing what we know' arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.
~ Robert A. Burton
What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.
~ Audrey Niffenegger
Nessuno può sapere, se non dopo una notte di patimenti, quanto dolce e prezioso al cuore e agli occhi possa essere il mattino.
~ Bram Stoker
Anticipation and dread aren't opposites, just different versions of the same game. Both involve knowing that something is going to happen, but not knowing when. And whether you end up winning or losing, you at least get to reach a conclusion. There's always some comfort in that.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
Es posible que nuestra mente diga: yo no te conozco. Pero el corazón sí le conoce.
~ Brian L. Weiss
The secret to success and enjoyment in so many parts of life is to know your capabilities and stay within them. Similarly, the key to success in investing is to know yourself and invest within your investing capabilities and within your emotional capacities.
~ Burton G. Malkiel
Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? -Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.
~ Terry Pratchett
Only Ron's dog was watching William. He considered that it had, for a dog, a very offensive and knowing look. A couple of months ago someaone had tried to hand William the old story about there being a dog in the city that could talk. (...) The dog in front of William didn't look as if it could talk, but it DID look as if it would swear.
~ Terry Pratchett
All is in the word "know." To know is to realize. Realization is mindfulness. All the work of meditation is aimed at awakening us in order to know one and only one thing: birth and death can never touch us in any way whatsoever.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
In silence, the consciousness grows. It aspires to know You more and more perfectly. More Answers From The Mother, vol 17, p.380
~ The Mother
I know what my identity is.
~ Travis Scott
You have to know yourself so well and be able to put it on whatever display you want to put it on and be confident in that and be fine with it.
~ Spencer Dinwiddie
Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.
~ Henry Petroski
I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.
~ Fanny Kemble
Kobe's footwork I'm a huge fan of because he prides himself on that and I feel like that's an important piece to the game - having the proper footwork and the strength, and just knowing where you are on the floor by just looking at the floor.
~ Bradley Beal
I thought there was a good chance the fridge was possessed. It was subtle about it, but I had its number. I knew its ways. Oh yes.
~ Karen Chance
In other words, even if all that can be known were known to you, you still wouldn't know anything because none of this has an effect on what you are. But the moment you know Yourself, in the non-knowing of what you are or what you are not, you know All! This is the paradox of Knowledge: you know yourself in the Absolute not-knowing because you are That what is unknowable, you are the ungraspable, the incomprehensible, without a second. And any idea or possibility of knowing creates duality.
~ Karl Renz
Mister God can know things and people from the inside too. We only know them from the outside, don't we? So you see, Fynn, people can't talk about Mister God from the outside; you can only talk about Mister God from the inside of him.
~ Fynn
But how will I know it's my destiny?' 'Like love it will possess you... You can't help but know.
~ Gail Tsukiyama
Love Has Forgotten No One is not really a book—rather, it's a portal, a transport system, a rearranging of the mind. When you've finished reading it, I believe you'll be closer to knowing your True Nature.
~ Gary R. Renard
Knowledge is fixed in time, whereas, knowing is continual. Knowledge comes from a source, from an accumulation, from a conclusion, while knowing is a movement.
~ Bruce Lee