Quotes on Knowing

Knowing all objects to be impermanent, let not their contact blind you, resolve again and again to be aware of the Self that is permanent.

What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?

O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.

So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious. Those who discern when to use many or few troops are victorious. Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does not lead to knowing. A child's world spreads only a little beyond his understanding while that of a great scientist thrusts outward immeasurably. An answer is invariably the parent of a great family of new questions. So we draw worlds and fit them like tracings against the world about us, and crumple them when we find they do not fit and draw new ones.

No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.

I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me - it resonated.

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

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home.

The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.

The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.

Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing up means gaining the wisdom and the skills to get what we want within the limitations imposed by reality - a reality which consists of diminished powers, restricted freedoms and, with the people we love, imperfect connections.

Grief is a solitary journey. No one but you knows how great the hurt is. No one but you can know the gaping hole left in your life when someone you know has died. And no one but you can mourn the silence that was once filled with laughter and song. It is the nature of love and of death to touch every person in a totally unique way. Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice based on the knowledge that we belong to God and have found in God our refuge and our safety and that nothing, not even death, can take God away from us.