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  • I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things. -- Farrah Fawcett
  • True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
  • I don't feel frightened by not knowing things. -- Richard P. Feynman
  • Thomas was sick of being accused of knowing things. -- James Dashner
  • You think knowing things will solve your private little griefs? -- Kiana Davenport
  • The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist. -- Miyamoto Musashi
  • The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are ... -- Matthew Arnold
  • Prompt to move but firm to wait - knowing things rashly sought are rarely found. -- William Wordsworth
  • That's one form of magic, of course." "What, just knowing things?" "Knowing things that other people don't know. -- Terry Pratchett
  • Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless? -- Carlos Castaneda
  • Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds. -- Nami Mun
  • I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better. -- Nicholas Haslam
  • When you meditate and still your mind, you will gain the wisdom of knowing things in this world, in other worlds and beyond worlds - it just comes to you. -- Frederick Lenz
  • Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures. -- Action Bronson
  • The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of the meditation knowing things ... things that are inexpressible. -- Frederick Lenz
  • When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries. -- Paulo Coelho
  • I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me. -- Richard P. Feynman
  • And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are. -- Plato
  • Just having the internet is a weird and dangerous thing because people become accustomed to knowing things when they want to know them and not having to work for it. I definitely see the value in not knowing everything and having mystery in life and mystery in people. -- Adam Driver
  • If your project or organization depends on knowing things that other people don't know (but could find out if they wanted to), your days are probably numbered. Ask a travel agent The alternative, while difficult, is obvious. Provide enough non-commodity service and customization that it doesn't matter if the ideas spread. In fact, it will help you when they do. -- Seth Godin
  • Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and yet not even he could know that this next chapter was to be the most unusual-and most important-of his entire childhood. Indeed, the strange days that lay ahead would change him forever, though for now they had less substance than the mist through which he ran. -- Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean. -- Maurice Sendak
  • Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things. -- Simon Travaglia
  • The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are. -- Martin Puryear
  • The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. -- Oswald Chambers
  • In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. -- Charles de Montesquieu
  • I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know. -- Hayley Williams
  • The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise. -- Aeschylus
  • The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed. -- Baron de Montesquieu
  • I like the idea of everybody knowing each other; you know why you're doing things. -- Daniel Woodrell
  • The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
  • An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing. -- Paul Lynde
  • Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight. -- William Safire
  • We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike. -- Madame de Stael
  • True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment. -- James Russell Lowell
  • Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will. -- S. Jay Olshansky
  • One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what's good and what's not good. -- Paul Feig
  • Knowing the strike zone is very important, but I think the first thing is knowing yourself, knowing what things you do well. -- Tony Gwynn
  • I think the things about being with someone and knowing someone so well is that the things you love about them, you always will. The things that drive you crazy will always drive you crazy about them. -- Elizabeth Rodriguez
  • Knowing many things doesn't teach insight. -- Heraclitus
  • Knowing and believing are two different things. -- Josh Lanyon
  • All things are strange which are worth knowing. -- Catherynne M. Valente
  • Fearless is knowing that someday things will change. -- Taylor Swift
  • Knowing it and seeing it are two different things. -- Suzanne Collins
  • Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them. -- Terry Pratchett
  • I cried over beautiful things, knowing no beautiful thing lasts. -- Carl Sandburg
  • I just can't sleep tonight knowing that things ain't right. -- Justin Bieber
  • Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldnt do. -- William S. Knudsen
  • Wisdom is having things right in your lifeand knowing why. -- William Stafford
  • Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening. -- Mark Vonnegut
  • When imagination changes from hoping to knowing, it makes things real. -- Angelo Dirks
  • Knowing where things are, and why, is essential to rational decision making -- Jack Dangermond
  • Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts. -- François Lelord
  • Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts. -- François Lelord
  • And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up. -- Saul Bellow
  • Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things. -- Richard Russo
  • The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things. -- Maeve Binchy
  • The key to understanding complicated things is knowing what not to look at. -- Gerald Jay Sussman
  • Some things, it's very useful to begin without knowing fully where you're going. -- Kate Tempest
  • What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • you know things, without knowing how you know, but you know it is true -- Avis J. Williams
  • Knowing and doing are two separate things, and don't always sync up in life. -- Nenia Campbell
  • Maybe I'd just figured out there were some things you were better off not knowing -- Sarah Dessen
  • The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why -- Jean Rostand
  • Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail. -- E. W. Howe
  • The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed. -- Baron de Montesquieu
  • I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know. -- Hayley Williams
  • There are things we want, and things we may have.... Sanity lies in knowing the difference. -- Karen Chance
  • Knowing yourself, knowing where you want to get, combining those things gives you the pragmatic steps. -- John Amaechi
  • For of all hard things to bear and grin, / The hardest is knowing you're taken in. -- Phoebe Cary
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  • Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing. -- Orson Scott Card
  • Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason. -- Gelett Burgess
  • Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world... -- Dean Koontz
  • But knowing that things could be worse should not stop us from trying to make them better. -- Sheryl Sandberg
  • Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight -- William Safire
  • I love the thought of not knowing how things will turn out but the willingness to invest anyway. -- Kristin Armstrong
  • Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them. -- George R. R. Martin
  • Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself. -- Puggy Pearson
  • Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras. -- Ansel Adams
  • Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness. -- Jean Vanier
  • The six things in life that never get boring are knowing and loving God, your neighbor, and yourself. -- Peter Kreeft
  • One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper. -- Terry Pratchett
  • Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on. -- Gloria Gaither
  • Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that's interesting. -- Aimee Mann
  • Things are always changing. Part of being successful here is being comfortable with not knowing what's going to happen. -- Susan Wojcicki
  • The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true. -- Andrew Sullivan
  • Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count? -- John Piper
  • In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared. -- Katherine Dunham
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  • And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation. -- Moliere
  • Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
  • It's not knowing that drives you mad. It's imaging things that you wish you couldn't think up all by yourself. -- Jenny Valentine
  • Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure -- Dorothy Allison
  • People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them. -- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers. -- Edward P. Jones
  • There are few more frustrating things in life than being told something that you already know but cannot admit to knowing. -- Helen Cresswell
  • Things you plan in life usually turn out to be meaningless, things you accumulate without knowing it become your real treasure. -- Thomas Adcock
  • One of the most important things about social media is knowing when to put the phone down and experience your life. -- Taylor Swift
  • There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those. -- Jude Deveraux
  • Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life. -- Brandon Sanderson
  • 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
  • Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises. -- Jaggi Vasudev
  • It's about paying attention to the little things, the details... Constantly rediscovering your partner, knowing there's a way out of any crisis. -- Antonio Banderas
  • Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier. -- John Dewey
  • What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did. -- Nina Simone
  • When God doesn't change a circumstance, He can change our hearts in knowing that He can change all things for the good. -- Nick Vujicic
  • There is a peace deep within myself from knowing that all things are held within and sustained by the love of God. -- Jim Palmer
  • Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing. -- Hank Green
  • you cannot confuse bravery or courage with lack of fear. Real courage, true bravery is doing things in spite of fear, knowing fear. -- Maia Wojciechowska
  • Sometimes, I don't know that words for things, how to write down the feeling of knowing that every dying person leaves something behind. -- Jacqueline Woodson
  • What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing. -- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Darwinism's atheism prevents science from knowing why things are as they are. Without God there is no answer to the why for anything. -- Dave Hunt
  • I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care. -- Maureen Johnson
  • So, knowing what you know now, if you had the chance to go back to, say, '68, '70, would you do things differently? -- Frank Zane
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