Quotes of Knowing - somelinesforyou

“ Everything I know I learned in vaudeville. ”

- James Cagney

“ Everything I know I learned after I was thirty. ”

- Georges Clemenceau

“ History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do until they try, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done… ”

- R. G. Collingwood

“ Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. ”

- Unknown

“ Knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. ”

- Lucille Ball

“ Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. ”

- Goethe

“ Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led. But it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. ”

- Oswald Chambers

“ I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can. ”

- Lucille Ball

“ If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well. ”

- Alexander Smith

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power. ”

- Lao tzu

“ Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. ”

- Lao tzu

“ One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. ”

- Sidney Howard

“ Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim . ”

- Eileen Caddy

“ The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them. ”

- Douglas Everett

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

- Samuel Johnson

“ The thing that destroys a person is not the knowing but the knowing and not doing. ”

- Carolyn M. Rodgers

“ Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. ”

- David Starr Jordan

“ Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. ”

- Charles Kettering

“ Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy. ”

- Dean Koontz

“ You don't paint the way someone, by observing your life, thinks you have to paint, you paint the way you have to in order to give, that's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving… ”

- Franz Kline

“ Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes; knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth; it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. ”

- George Wald

“ Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. ”

- Will Cuppy

“ It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it? ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ”

- Scott Adams

“ The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ”

- William James

“ Diplomacy is the art of knowing what not to say. ”

- Matthew

“ Knowing is half the battle. ”

- GI Joe

“ True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. ”

- Socrates
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