Knowing Something Quotes

• I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.

  Lord Kelvin

  Math, Science, Numbers

  Popular Lectures and Addresses "Electrical Units of Measurement" (1889).

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• When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

  Lord Kelvin

  Math, Science, Numbers

  Popular Lectures and Addresses "Electrical Units of Measurement" (1889).

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• For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

  Wilson Mizner

  Relationship, Positive, Success

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.

  Orson Scott Card

  Knowing, May, Bears

  Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.87, Macmillan

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• I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.

  Gayle Forman

  Life, Believe, Differences

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Knowing, Bragging

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.50, Harvard University Press

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• Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Knowing, Crafts, Study

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• Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.

  Confucius

  Happiness, Knowing, Rejoice

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• If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something.

  Terry Pratchett

  Knowing, Annoying, One Thing

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Mort: (Discworld Novel 4)”, p.102, Random House

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• I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.

  Maureen Johnson

  Beautiful, Caring, Two

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.16, Penguin

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• Knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

  Mitch Albom

  Knowing, Understanding

  Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.87, Hachette UK

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• Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing something about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely, the path that is your life. Meditation may help us see that this path we call our life has direction; that it is always unfolding, moment by moment; and that what happens now, in this moment, influences what happens next.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Being Yourself, Knowing, Meditation

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?

  Aberjhani

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

  Walker Evans

  Knowing, Long, Staring

  Walker Evans (2004). “Many are Called”, p.202, Yale University Press

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• Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Art, Knowing, Cooking

  "Nathan Myhrvold on Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking". Michael Y. Park, www.epicurious.com.

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• I lay there knowing something eerie ties us to the world of animals. Sometimes the animals pull you backward into it. You share hunger and fear with them like salt in blood.

  Barry Lopez

  Animal, Blood, Eerie

  Barry Lopez (2013). “Arctic Dreams”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• I know I have to stop. We all have to stop. Funny how knowing something's a bad idea doesn't make a difference.

  Sara Ryan

  Ideas, Differences, Knowing

  Sara Ryan (2009). “Rules for Hearts”, p.94, Penguin

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• Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.

  Neil Postman

  Mean, Creating, Knowing

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.93, Penguin

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Knowing

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• I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Humble, Knowing, Ego

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.138, Hamilton Books

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• I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.6, Princeton University Press

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• Why did dogs make one want to cry? There was something so quiet and hopeless about their sympathy. Jasper, knowing something was wrong, as dogs always do. Trunks being packed. Cars being brought to the door. Dogs standing with drooping tails, dejected eyes. Wandering back to their baskets in the hall when the sound of the car dies away.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Dog, Eye, Doors

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• There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.

  Alison Croggon

  Knowing, Shame, Willing To Learn

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• A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog, or stroke its warm fur; to tell pain from everything it's not; to squeeze inside events, dawdle in views, to seek the least of all possible mistakes. An extraordinary chance to remember for a moment a conversation held with the lamp switched off; and if only once to stumble upon a stone, end up soaked in one downpour or another, mislay your keys in the grass; and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes; and to keep on not knowing something important.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Dog, Pain, Mistake

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Monologue of a Dog”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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