Quotes on Knows

It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.

Not-knowing is true knowledge. _x000D_ _x000D_ Presuming to know is a disease._x000D_ _x000D_ First realize that you are sick;_x000D_ _x000D_ then you can move toward health.

He who stands on tiptoe _x000D_ _x000D_ doesn't stand firm. _x000D_ _x000D_ He who rushes ahead _x000D_ _x000D_ doesn't go far. _x000D_ _x000D_ He who tries to shine _x000D_ _x000D_ dims his own light. _x000D_ _x000D_ He who defines himself _x000D_ _x000D_ can't know who he really is. _x000D_ _x000D_ He who has power over others _x000D_ _x000D_ can't empower himself. _x000D_ _x000D_ He who clings to his work _x000D_ _x000D_ will create nothing that endures.

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

[Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing is anticipated, expected and searched for will it be found and recognised as such and the most made of it. For example...] Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.

Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be the announcement only of a greater. Put not all your reserves into the first throw; the great trick is to dole out strength, and to dole out mind, in such a fashion as to bring forward increasingly the fulfillment of what was expected of you.

Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone: but what we have requires no proof.

People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.

God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.

Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation.

Then we shall... be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God.

Every sailor knows that you can't sail a ship that isn't moving forward, strong leaders understand that to change direction, you first have to create forward progress.

Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know.

A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

You know, more children die under the age of five when the parents are not educated.

Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone