Quotes About Knowing

A mind may know a thing, the spirit may embrace it, but the voice that chatters in the head clings ever to shameful beliefs.

He knows. I can see it in his eyes, he feels how much I love him still, and maybe he's always known.

Do you love him?" How would I know?" You'd know.

Man 'knows', which is why he is always two : his life and his knowing.

So the good news is, I know exactly what I want." "You do?" I say and I hope you'll ask me to eat you out in the bathroom at Starbuck's.

How can I do my duty if I do not know where it lies?

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

you find them wreathed in knowing deprecating smiles; they beg you to spare them.

If a man didn't make sense, the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation, for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

She'd know. Ain't nobody more psychic than a wife.

Martha, I wonder if you can ever truly know someone you love until you have been married near forever." It was Martha's turn for an encouraging nod. "Loving someone and coming to know them better," Jack went on, "I think that will be an adventure all its own.

You should always know who you are, he thought. And who you aren

That's the trouble with innocents. They aren't innocent of doing, just of knowing what they're doing.

Can't you just see all those enlightened monkey men sitting around a roaring woodfire around their Buddha saying nothing and knowing everything?

If all the world were green, there would be no such thing as the color green. Similarly, men cannot know what it is to be together without otherwise knowing what it is to be apart. If all the world were love, then, how could love exist? This is why we turn away from each other on moments of great happiness and closeness. How can we know happiness and closeness without contrasting them, like lights?

For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.

In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way.

Life will not, it will never, make sense to your mind. The secret is to see life from the soul's perspective; to add to the mind's experience the soul's wisdom, awareness, and total knowing.

Always start at the end before you begin. Professional investors always have an exit strategy before they invest. Knowing your exit strategy is an important investment fundamental.

Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.

The mind usually says, "I know, I know, I know." But the "don't-know mind" is where wisdom lives.

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.