Quotes on Knows

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am. I am a very passionate man and I suffer a lot and have a lot of joy also. In my opinion, it is very important for me to find this stimulus and motivation for singing.

We know how to be doctors, nurses, lawyers. We know how to be tweeters. We know how to be everything. But how do you just be people? How do you be present with one another? How do you be honest with one another? How do you be compassionate towards one another, forgiving towards one another? We know what to do. We don't know what to be, how to be.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it's bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

The cyberspace 'earnings' I get from Linux come in the format of having a Network of people that know me and trust me, and that I can depend on in return.

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.