Quotes and Sayings About Knowing
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One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.
-- A. Y. Jackson -
First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing.
-- A.M. JenkinsSource : A. M. Jenkins (2009). “Repossessed”, p.22, Harper Collins
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But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
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The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.
-- Aaron LevieSource : Twitter post from Sep 12, 2013
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
-- Aaron Taylor-JohnsonSource : "Toy boys r us" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. March 26, 2010.
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He pressed a kiss to my ear. “Do you feel stretched? Can you tell I’ve been inside you?†I nodded, feeling my knees go a little weak from the tone in his voice. “Good. I like knowing you can feel where I’ve been.
-- Abbi Glines -
All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
-- Abdurrahman Wahid -
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.
-- Abraham Maslow -
The shuttle is the worst $20 you'll ever save. It adds 90 minutes to whatever a Town Car or cab would have been. You have the unenviable choice between being dropped off last or being dropped off first and having a bunch of losers who can't afford cab fare and have no friends or loved ones with cars knowing exactly where you live.
-- Adam CarollaSource : "In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks: And Other Complaints from an Angry Middle-aged White Guy". Book by Adam Carolla, edition.cnn.com. 2010.
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Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.
-- Adam Fletcher -
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Wherefor are you knowing it? If you stacked all of the Gorg in the galaxy on top of eachother, the Gorg would kill you.
-- Adam Rex -
Working together is a way of knowing each other better.
-- Additi Gupta -
Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.
-- Adi Shankara -
I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful
-- Adriana Trigiani -
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Women move through the world never knowing their power.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
Don't ever give up. Believe in yourself or no one else will. My personal saying is: 'I'd rather die knowing that I tried to do what I love.'
-- Adrienne BailonSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing - not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything. If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you. Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.
-- AdyashantiSource : Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.139, Sounds True
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For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.
-- Aeschylus -
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Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.
-- Agatha Christie -
The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
-- Agnes Repplier -
The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.
-- Agnes Sligh Turnbull -
He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
-- Aidan ChambersSource : Aidan Chambers (2004). “Postcards from No Man's Land”
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The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
I believe that entertainment and amusements are the work of the Enemy to keep dying men from knowing they're dying; and to keep enemies of God from remembering that they're enemies.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts. Investigate yourself to find the truth - inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
-- Ajahn Chah -
A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.
-- Ajahn Sumedho -
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Not knowing what will happen makes life fun.
-- Akechi Mitsuhide -
My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.
-- Al-Shafi‘i