Knowing Quotes - Page 15

• Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.

  Toni Morrison

  Said, Depends

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Beloved”, Random House

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• Jane Gallagher had wanted to know what time it was, but for some reason Holden Caulfield hadn't wanted Stradlater to tell her. When Stradlater refused to tell Holden Caulfield whether or not he had told Jane Gallagher what time it was, Holden Caulfield became enraged and attacked him in a fit or horological savagery, possibly because he was mentally ill and hated anyone byt him knowing what time it was.

  Frank Portman

  Fit, Reason, Holden

  "King Dork". Book by Frank Portman, April 11, 2006.

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• Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the time, have a low tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty. We want to reduce the cognitive dissonance of not knowing by filling the gaps with answers. Traditionally, religious myths have served that role, but today — the age of science — science fiction is our mythology.

  Michael Shermer

  Religious, Tolerance, Age

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• It should begin with friendship, I think. Suddenly I cannot look at him. It should begin with friendship and truly knowing who a person is, knowing his flaws and hopes and strengths and fears, knowing all of it. And admiring and caring for- loving the person because of all of those things... I know that now.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Caring, Thinking, Looks

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• I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Country, Reading, Character

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• Even still, we run. We have not reached our average of 57.92 years without knowing that you run through it, and it hurts and you run through it some more, and if it hurts worse, you run through it even more, and when you finish, you will have broken through. In the end, when you are done, and stretching, and your heartbeat slows, and your sweat dries, if you've run through the hard part, you will remember no pain.

  Lauren Groff

  Running, Hurt, Pain

  Lauren Groff (2012). “The Monsters of Templeton”, p.188, Random House

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• Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Heart, Optimistic, Independent

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• It’s not always easy to get over some of those bumps in the road, those disillusionments and disappointments. It’s going to take a strong will. Sometimes, it may take courage. Sometimes nothing but faith in God and say, I refuse to be trapped in the past. I’m not going to let the past destroy my future. I’m pressing on. I’m straining forward, knowing that God has great things in store for me.

  Joel Osteen

  Strong, Disappointment, Past

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• If you know you have to wait anyway, why not make a decision to enjoy your life while you’re waiting? Why not be happy while God is in the process of changing things? After all, there’s nothing we can really do to make it happen any faster. We might as well relax and enjoy our lives, knowing that at the appointed time God is going to bring his plan to pass.

  Joel Osteen

  Decision, Waiting, Relax

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• An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism. Conversely, the confiscation of their lands and imposition of foreign education, which turns their young people into amnesiacs, threatens the survival not only of these people, but of an entire way of knowing. It is as if one were burning down the oldest universities in the world and their libraries, one after another — thereby sacrificing the knowledge of the world's future generations.

  Jeremy Narby

  Sacrifice, Land, People

  Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.119, Penguin

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• I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing

  Gertrude Stein

  Thinking, Care, Care For You

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “GERTRUDE STEIN Premium Collection: 60+ Poems, Tales & Plays in One Volume: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Psychology of Nations, Do Let Us Go Away…”, p.92, e-artnow

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• We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.

  Ali Smith

  Years, Important, Birth

  Ali Smith (2015). “Hotel World”, p.104, Penguin UK

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• If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

  Markus Zusak

  Laughter, Laughing, Feels

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.349, RH Childrens Books

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• She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

  Jane Austen

  Ignorance, Vanity, People

  'Northanger Abbey' (1818) ch. 14

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• I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys.

  Andre Breton

  Book, Keys, Doors

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• It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Discovery, World, Matter

  "The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1868-1869.

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• He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

  Aidan Chambers

  Sometimes, Difficult, Explain Yourself

  Aidan Chambers (2004). “Postcards from No Man's Land”

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• Every love relationship rests on an unwritten agreement unthinkingly concluded by the lovers in the first weeks of their love. They are still in a kind of dream but at the same time, without knowing it, are drawing up, like uncompromising lawyers, the detailed clauses of their contract. O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

  Milan Kundera

  Dream, Betrayal, Drawing

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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, Making A Difference

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

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• I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Opportunity, Thinking

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• You're so beautiful," said Alice. "I'm afraid of looking at you and not knowing who you are." "I think that even if you don't know who I am someday, you'll still know that I love you." "What if I see you, and I don't know that you're my daughter, and I don't know that you love me?" "Then, I'll tell you that I do, and you'll believe me.

  Lisa Genova

  Beautiful, Daughter, Believe

  Lisa Genova (2011). “Lisa Genova Box Set: Still Alice and Left Neglected”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.

  Julia Glass

  Thinking

  Julia Glass (2002). “Three Junes”, Pantheon

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• Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts, Teach us something please, Whether we be old and bald, Or young with scabby knees, Our heads could do with filling With some interesting stuff, For now they're bare and full of air, Dead flies and bits of fluff, So teach us something worth knowing, Bring us back what we've forgot, Just do your best, we'll do the rest, And learn until our brains all rot.

  J. K. Rowling

  Air, Interesting, Brain

  "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the world and them and that the world was not only their oyster it was also their linguine with clam sauce. Not only were all things possible, but all things were theirs.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Oysters, Feelings, World

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• No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be limited to men how INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

  Ezra Pound

  Teacher, Real, Ignorance

  ABC of Reading (1934) ch. 8

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