Quotes on Knows

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in the endeavor of science. We do not know in advance who will discover fundamental insights.

I [do not know] when the end of science will come. ... What I do know is that our species is dumber than we normally admit to ourselves. This limit of our mental faculties, and not necessarily of science itself, ensures to me that we have only just begun to figure out the universe.

At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.

Theory and fact are equally strong and utterly interdependent; one has no meaning without the other. We need theory to organize and interpret facts, even to know what we can or might observe. And we need facts to validate theories and give them substance.

Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.

One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst, when I reach the lowest depths, I have an inward peace which no pain or depression can in the least disturb. Trusting in Jesus Christ my Savior, there is still a blessed quietness in the deep caverns of my soul.

'I don't know' has become 'I don't know yet'.

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.

It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

You know people just assume, 'Well, all my life I'll be a worrier.' That doesn't have to be true. There's a way to drink from God's presence so much that worry begins to dissipate.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. As in the words of Wayne Dyer, when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Sometimes to know with certainty that a particular thing is "true", will actually be the very thing that keeps you from attaining the things you seek to achieve.

Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill.

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor, the conquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.