Quotes About Knowing

Even if it's not a vision," Pauline said, "it could still be a gift. There could be other kinds of knowing." A chill clutched my spine. "What did you say?" She repeated her words, almost the same ones the priest had used that morning.

I knew, I knew, but I tried to close the door on my knowing.

I wanted to be like my sister, who made friends and mistakes easily. It was like she'd been born knowing how to live.

Man born of woman cannot outrun his fate. Better then not to question the Immortals, nor when they have spoken to grieve one's heart in vain. A bound is set to our knowing, and wisdom is not to search beyond it. Men are only men.

Everything in life is uncertain. That is how you know you are existing in the world, the uncertainty. Of course, this is why we sometimes want to return to the past, because we know it, or we think we do. It's a song we've heard.

In all our dealings with God, free grace anticipates us with the blessings of goodness, and all our comfort is owing, not to our knowing God, but rather to our being known of him

We experience a perception and its horizon "in action" rather than by "posing" them or explicitly "knowing" them.

I knew him, but I don't understand him.

Nothing may change in days or in years or all can change in hours and in seconds! Knowing this means that you already know many things!

W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

Thus the soul's pursuit continues, for she holds to this knowing-by-unknowing.

Sometimes partial kindness kills a person as bad as partial knowin.' Judy said this while she hugged the dress. "But then sometimes partial kindness and partial knowin' is the two best things in the world.

But you didn't need me, did you? You'd already got yourself to safety." "Sometimes, I sleep better knowing you . . . and Niall . . ." She faltered. "Love you from a safe distance," he finished. "Yes.

Though perhaps it is a kind of faith, a return to the beginnings to see if what was lost may again be found. In solitude, in exile, we come to know what cannot otherwise be known; we remember what we saw and see it for the first time.

Annabelle will be impressed if I say yes. I'll be different in her eyes, dumb maybe, but worth knowing.

The balance of this world is not upset by accident. It is not upset by those who blunder accidentally into wrong. Evil comes when those who know better, who have seen the pain they cause, nevertheless cause more pain.

she was a dreadful woman; and she was, that's true enough, but sometimes I have wondered lately if she knew it—if she wa'n't like a baby with scissors in its hand cuttin' everybody without knowin' what it was doin'.

It may be that it is not given to us to know when we are angels. We may only be given to know when others are. This may be one of the reasons we need each other so.

Theory 4: But then there was the those-that-know-him-best theory, some version of which most Trumpers would come to embrace. He was just star-fucking.

He knew a few people there. And he was afraid that this

I took a certain pride in knowing I'd helped ruin his life enough to give him something substantial to write about.

the journey from knowing into unknowing into knowing that you call

Instead, the new snobbery is based on being 'knowing', and in displaying an awareness of the codes which are used to classify and differentiate between classes. It distinguishes those who are skilled in exercising judgement, in a knowing and sophisticated way, against those, whoever they may be, who are deemed unable to choose effectively.

To know is to observe, to understand is to experience