Knowing Something Quotes

How do we know imagination isn't just a different way of knowing something? A message from outside.

What use is it that knowledge mounts? It's knowing something good that counts.

But you can't stop knowing something, can you?

Faith is knowing something that no-one else does.

I just don't like the feeling of knowing something that somebody else doesn't.

There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.

Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.

One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear Superior, and will not likely be suspected of Not Knowing Something.

Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.

Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, "This is good enough for you." The audience, thrust into that familiar American mood of knowing something is wrong but not knowing what it is, unconsciously absorbs the insult and projects it back onto the mediocre performer in the form of inattention, rudeness and noise.

Faith means being sure of what we hope for now. It means knowing something is real, this moment, all around you, even when you don't see it.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood.

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape.

Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.

Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something.

A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog, or stroke its warm fur; to tell pain from everything it's not; to squeeze inside events, dawdle in views, to seek the least of all possible mistakes. An extraordinary chance to remember for a moment a conversation held with the lamp switched off; and if only once to stumble upon a stone, end up soaked in one downpour or another, mislay your keys in the grass; and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes; and to keep on not knowing something important.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student.

I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.

Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing something about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely, the path that is your life. Meditation may help us see that this path we call our life has direction; that it is always unfolding, moment by moment; and that what happens now, in this moment, influences what happens next.

Why did dogs make one want to cry? There was something so quiet and hopeless about their sympathy. Jasper, knowing something was wrong, as dogs always do. Trunks being packed. Cars being brought to the door. Dogs standing with drooping tails, dejected eyes. Wandering back to their baskets in the hall when the sound of the car dies away.

I know I have to stop. We all have to stop. Funny how knowing something's a bad idea doesn't make a difference.

The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to himself. Perhaps you are chasing rainbows. You're after the self-confidence of the average man, when you should be after the humbleness of a warrior. The difference between the two is remarkable. Self Confidence entails knowing something for sure; humbleness entails being impeccable in one's actions and feelings.

When a path opens up before us that leads we know not where, don't be afraid to follow it. Our lives are meant to be mysterious journeys, unfolding one step at a time. Often we follow a path worn smooth by the many and in doing so we lose our authenticity, our individuality, our own unique expression. Do not be afraid to lose your way. Out of chaos, clarity will eventually rise. Out of not knowing, something new and unknown will ultimately come. Do not order things too swiftly. Wait and the miracle will appear.

Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something.

If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?