Knowing Quotes - Page 3

• Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

  Rosa Parks

  Inspiring, Strong Women, Fear

  Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

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• Being willing is not enough. We must do.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate domains we abstract from the unity of Nature, this unity remains. Although we may deal with particulars, we return finally to the whole pattern woven out of these.

  Ernest Everett Just

  Beauty, Nature, People

  Ernest Everett Just (1939). “The Biology of the Cell Surface”, Taylor & Francis

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• I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

  Juana Inés de la Cruz

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Business, Good Life

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [43]

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• I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured. I know now that this isn’t so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all our lives to remember the most basic things.

  Lucy Grealy

  Wisdom, Truth, Hard Work

  Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.233, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Epic things start with small humble steps. Pay respect to your beginnings. And if you're just starting out, know that it's OK to be sucky. To be small. To be messy and chaotic. Just make sure to never ever stop dreaming.

  Vishen Lakhiani

  Success, Dream, Respect

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• Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.

  Jean Vanier

  Love, Mean, Ordinary

  Jean Vanier (2010). “Living Gently in a Violent World (Large Print 16pt)”, p.55, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Philosophy, Work

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.50, Penguin

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• I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Change, Education

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.

  J. D. Greear

  God, Religious, Prayer

  J.D. Greear (2011). “Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary”, p.187, B&H Publishing Group

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• This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

  Mitch Albom

  Family, Giving, Fame

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.92, Broadway Books

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• Education is the mother of leadership.

  Wendell Willkie

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  Wendell Lewis Willkie (1943). “Freedom and the Liberal Arts”

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• By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

  Kajol

  Change, Being Yourself, Laughter

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• Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.

  Dick Guindon

  Nature, Writing, Thinking

  "Why We Should Build Software Like We Build Houses" by Leslie Lamport, www.wired.com. January 25, 2013.

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• Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

  Henry James

  Heart, Novelists, Lasts

  Henry James, F. O. Matthiessen, Kenneth B. Murdock (1981). “The Notebooks of Henry James”, p.74, University of Chicago Press

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• I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Badass, Knowledge, Science

  Richard P. Feynman (2005). “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman”, p.21, Hachette UK

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• Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

  Sophocles

  Thinking, Not Knowing, Sweetest

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.40, University of Chicago Press

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• The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

  Albert Einstein

  Witty, Clever, Creativity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Death, Knowledge, Science

  "Horizon (The Pleasure of Finding Things Out)". Documentary (November 23, 1981), later published in "No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman" edited by Christopher Sykes (p. 239), 1994.

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• To build up a future, you have to know the past.

  Otto Frank

  Future, Knowledge, Past

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• Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Purpose, Earth

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.230, Princeton University Press

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• Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Knowledge, Men, Self

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.1891, Delphi Classics

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• The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Sea, Environmental

  Twitter post from Oct 28, 2017

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