Knowing Quotes - Page 6

• He who has a pure heart will never cease to pray; and he who will be constant in prayer, shall know what it is to have a pure heart.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Spiritual, Religious, Prayer

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• To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

  R. C. Sproul

  Love, God, Christian

  Twitter post from Jan 02, 2016

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• If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it.

  Irving Thalberg

  Writing, People, Important

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• You cannot find your soul with your mind,
  you must use your heart.
  You must know what you are feeling.
  If you don't know what you are feeling, you will create unconsciously.
  If you are unconscious of an aspect of yourself;
  if it operates outside your field of awareness,
  that aspect has power over you.

  Gary Zukav

  Heart, Power, Creating

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• The evolution of the New Era rests on the cornerstone of Knowledge and Beauty.

  Nicholas Roerich

  Beauty, Knowledge, Eras

  Nicholas Roerich (1990). “Heart of Asia: Memoirs from the Himalayas”, p.1, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Life, Change, Wisdom

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”

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• When I use the camera, I often feel likeI know part of the people or places I come in contact with.

  Christophe Agou

  Photography, People, Cameras

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• Creative people have to believe in the value of their work. If you don’t have any belief then you can’t give anything—designing is an act of giving, and a belief in the value of the work fuels the desire to express something. It’s important to know what your values are and to take care of them.

  Peter Saville

  Work, Believe, Creativity

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• You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

  Seymour Papert

  Education, Teacher, Learning

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• With so many scientific achievements we know so little of where we came from and where we are going. But we know even less of the most important discovery of all – Love. Only love can accept our differences as we journey through life. And only love can allow space for our growth.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Love, Life, Acceptance

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• I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Science, Achievement, Chemistry

  Ahmed H. Zewail (2002). “Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize”, p.72, World Scientific

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• We don't know how to live together on Earth, how the hell are we going to live together on Mars?

  Jacque Fresco

  People, Together, Mars

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• One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love - to serve the loved one without his knowing it - is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

  Simone Weil

  Life, Atheism, God Love

  Simone Weil (2015). “First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge”, p.84, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

  Tony Robbins

  Art, Mistake, Creativity

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Oct 24, 2011

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• Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

  Muhammad Ali

  Wise, Greatness, Martial Arts

  Twitter post from Jul 03, 2010

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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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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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• I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn’t really care.

  Jean Rhys

  Life, Being Yourself, I Dont Care

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• The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

  Mortimer Adler

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Thinking

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

  Ayn Rand

  Trust, Philosophy, Greatness

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.180, Penguin

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• God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows

  Timothy Keller

  God, Religious, Prayer

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• To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self.

  Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

  Wisdom, Self Esteem, Knowledge

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• [Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

  Timothy Keller

  Friendship, Marriage, God

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.85, Penguin

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• It seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts.

  Rudolfo Anaya

  Inspirational, Heart, People

  Rudolfo A. Anaya (1972). “Bless Me, Ultima: A Novel”, Tqs Publications

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• I'll never know, and neither will you of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Life, Beautiful, Important

  "Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar". Book by Cheryl Strayed, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 10, 2012.

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