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Quotes About Knowing

To know Christ in the modern world is to know him in your world now. To know him in your world now is to live interactively with him right where you are in your daily activities. This is the spiritual life in Christ.
~ Dallas Willard
In feelings we really know that something is "there," and solidly so. But what it is and why it is remains obscure—though hauntingly present.
~ Dallas Willard
Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows. Angels and Demons p. 484
~ Dan Brown
Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows.
~ Dan Brown
the work of the philosopher Manly P. Hall: If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.
~ Dan Brown
Manly P. Hall: If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.
~ Dan Brown
Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows." Now
~ Dan Brown
But I bet it's more complicated than that. There're places of power—yeah—no doubt about that. But it's like we were talking about last night. You have to help make them. You have to be in the right place at the right time and know it. How do you know it? asked Baedecker. By dreaming about it but not thinking about it, Dave said.
~ Dan Simmons
These two minds, the emotional and the rational, operate in tight harmony for the most part, intertwining their very different ways of knowing to guide us through the world.
~ Daniel Goleman
The counsel on public relations," Mr. Bernays explains, "not only knows what news value is, but knowing it, he is in a position to make news happen. He is a creator of events.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
"When you're in love, you're capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the the mysteries."
~ Paulo Coelho
Maybe this is what alone really is — finding out how tiny your world is, and not knowing how to get anywhere else.
~ David Levithan, Another Day
The total picture of life is almost too painful for contemplation; life depends on our not knowing it too well.
~ Will Durant
Genius consists in this, that the knowing faculty has received a considerably greater development than the service of the will demands.
~ Will Durant
Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]
~ William Faulkner
Memory believes before knowing remembers.
~ William Faulkner
It was the root of street cool, too, the knowing posture that implied connection, invisible lines up to the hidden levels of influence.
~ William Gibson
Nobody can teach me who I am.
~ Chinua Achebe
TO OOCH IS TO ask, Why predict something we can test? Why guess when we can know?
~ Chip Heath
Intuitive intelligence is knowing though direct inner perceptions or direct knowing. It doesn't require study. The disciple just simply knows. There are usually no inner images or visions. Intuitive intelligence utilizes the crown chakra.
~ Choa Kok Sui
Tatty says oh yes, she knows what he's like. But when she thinks about it, she doesn't.
~ Christine Dwyer Hickey
One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.
~ Henri Poincare
It's good to be just plain happy; it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how… and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.
~ Henry Miller
He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so that there was no knowing to which to reply.
~ Leo Tolstoy