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  • One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself. -- Jerome Bruner
  • A visionary is someone who can see the future, or thinks he sees the future. In my case, I use it and it comes out right. That doesn't come from daydreams or dreams, but it comes from knowing the market and knowing the world and knowing people really well and knowing where they're going to be tomorrow. -- Leonard Lauder
  • At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world. -- Charles Baxter
  • That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit. -- Emile Durkheim
  • I loved science, and when I discovered Buddhist meditative practices and martial arts, I was able to bridge those ways of knowing the world into my own unique way. From that grew the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, which became my karmic assignment. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art. -- Angela Carter
  • It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted. -- Jayne Mansfield
  • Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. -- John Dryden
  • Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds. -- Bob Hayes
  • Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight. -- Pico Iyer
  • What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world? -- Rocky Marciano
  • There's no better feeling in the world than knowing that my show played a role in stopping animal abuse or alleviating animal suffering. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • Knowledge is generally considered a good thing; so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good. -- Peter Singer
  • For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world. -- Madhur Bhandarkar
  • I honestly always thought my Master's in Fine Arts would get me further in the acting world than knowing how to work an espresso machine! -- James Michael Tyler
  • I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world. -- James Laughlin
  • If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with. -- Michael Jackson
  • How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions? -- Polly Toynbee
  • One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn't like you. Especially when you don't know what you've done to deserve it. -- Ariana Grande
  • I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering. -- John le Carre
  • The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way. -- William Barclay
  • I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world. -- Kathleen Turner
  • The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers. -- Will Durant
  • I am a father, I am very aware of the things that I'm putting out in the world knowing that one day my children will watch the work that I've done. I want to be able to stand by it. -- David Oyelowo
  • The world is whole beyond human knowing. -- Wendell Berry
  • Just knowing you exist changed the world for me. -- Tiffanie DeBartolo
  • Women move through the world never knowing their power. -- Adriana Trigiani
  • There's a terror in knowing what the world is about -- David Bowie
  • The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature. -- Novalis
  • The world is not impermanent if one lives there after knowing God. -- Ramakrishna
  • All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site. -- Robin Sloan
  • The world has found lenses on its nose without knowing whom to thank -- Vasco Ronchi
  • Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world. -- Laozi
  • Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world. -- Socrates
  • Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world. -- Orhan Pamuk
  • Knowing that you're not alone really does make all the difference in the world. -- Normani Hamilton
  • The best feeling in the world is knowing that you actually mean something to someone. -- Will Smith
  • Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue! -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • There is a world of difference between knowing what to do and actually doing it. -- Bill Phillips
  • It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted -- Jayne Mansfield
  • I love knowing that people now own a piece of a world that I created. -- Ainsley Peace
  • Knowing the bright, but clinging to the dark, you become a model to the world. -- Laozi
  • The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself.Michel de Montaigne -- Laurie Stevens
  • In stillness, we find our peace. Knowing peace at home, we bring peace into the world. -- Katrina Kenison
  • We can be encouraged knowing that our daily actions and words are declaring Christ to the world. -- David Jeremiah
  • People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events. -- David Frum
  • Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world... -- Dean Koontz
  • No one is perfect in this world. Forgive people for not knowing better and learn to move on. -- Leon Brown
  • Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own. -- Tibor Fischer
  • All thinking, knowing, perception, space-time, occur in consciousness. You are a non-local consciousness. The world is in you. -- Deepak Chopra
  • There is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word. -- Leonard Ravenhill
  • To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life. -- Rajneesh
  • Realism is knowing fantasy and reality intersect constantly. Realism is living with the awareness that every act changes the world. -- Ales Kot
  • Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world -- Satish Kumar
  • 464Joy is found in the breath of acceptance knowing that all is well in our world, if we surrender with grace. -- Jennifer Lynch
  • Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world's friend. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
  • Knowing that all things contrary to God's laws are transient, let us avoid despair and radiate hope for a warless world. -- Peace Pilgrim
  • The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.] -- Ramakrishna
  • I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it. -- Gayle Forman
  • Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals. -- Dmitri Mendeleev
  • It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree -- Guy Gavriel Kay
  • In Iran, as in all developing countries, they wanted to copy the outside world, without knowing what was good for our own country. -- Farah Diba
  • Emptiness comes from within due to outer world affects on you. Knowing the emptiness is wisdom, but suffering with emptiness is being stupid. -- Abhinav Rajput
  • But that's part of faith. Believing and knowing despite what other people say, and despite what the world might think of your beliefs. -- James Frey
  • Knowing that we can make a difference in this world is a great motivator. How can we know this and not be involved? -- Susan Jeffers
  • They are young and life has no limits. Nothing is impossible, nothing beyond doing or knowing. The world is theirs and everything in it. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
  • Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need. I live more simply now, and with more peace. -- Richard E. Byrd
  • Knowing all the languages in the world could help you to really understand all the jokes you can hear... from my future Kids' Funny Business. -- Ivan Stoikov
  • Knowing nature is part of knowing God. Faith directs us to the invisible God, but leads us back from God to the entire visible world. -- Arnold Albert van Ruler
  • Thankfully, I have a background as an actor, and you learn how to live in that world of not knowing what's going to happen next. -- Jon Favreau
  • How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't do it alone. -- Sarah Dessen
  • Nature introduces children to the idea"?to the knowing"?that they are not alone in this world, and that realities and dimensions exist alongside their own. -- Richard Louv
  • Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • In order to deal with the chaos that exists in the world today, you need some grounding. That grounding best comes from knowing who you are. -- Michael Ray
  • The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world... -- Henry Giroux
  • Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world. -- Richelle Mead
  • We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back. -- Tracy Chevalier
  • All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it. -- Jean de la Bruyere
  • Just knowing that the world is round Here I'm dancing on the ground Am I right side up or upside down? Is this real or am I dreaming? -- Dave Matthews
  • We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives. -- Fred Melamed
  • There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. -- Robin Sloan
  • Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside. -- K. D. Lang
  • There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you. -- Norman Mailer
  • I love summertime more than anything else in the world. That is the only thing that gets me through the winter, knowing that summer is going to be there. -- Jack McBrayer
  • My mother was supportive without knowing it. Deep down she wanted all the right things, she just didn't see the world like I did, and she's not supposed to. -- Albert Brooks
  • If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end... -- Angela Johnson
  • Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little. -- Ann Brashares
  • Listen; this world is the lunatic's sphere , Don't always agree it's real, Even with my feet upon it And the postman knowing my door My address is somewhere else. -- Hafez
  • Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it. -- Bryant H. McGill
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