Knows Quotes

• When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Journey

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.

  Arthur Golden

  Mean, Memories Of A Geisha, Courses

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• You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.

  Paul Walker

  Love, Health, People

  FaceBook post by Paul Walker from Feb 29, 2012

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• Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Knowledge, Doe

  "Artists on Art: From the XIV to the XX Century". Book edited by Robert Goldwater, 1945.

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• What men do matters more than what they know.

  John Christopher

  Men, Matter

  John Christopher (2015). “The Sword of the Spirits”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes.
  The hero in each of us is required to answer the call of individuation.
  We must turn away from the cacaphony of the outerworld to hear the inner voice.
  When we can dare to live its promptings, then we achieve personhood.
  We may become strangers to those who thought they knew us, but at least we are no longer strangers to ourselves.

  James Hollis

  Hero, Voice, Knowing

  James Hollis (1993). “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife”, p.116, Inner City Books

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• Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.

  Vince Carter

  Basketball, Style, Different

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• We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Past, Wish

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.7, Advaita Ashrama

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• We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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• I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

  George Washington Carver

  Life, Flower, Hypocrite

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• I believe that at least 70 percent of parenting goes to the mother. In our house, I'm the one who knows about all the school stuff, helps with the homework, organizes the play dates, and remembers the birthday parties.

  Cindy Crawford

  Mother, Party, Believe

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• Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Office, Literature, Officials

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• The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "Betting On a Bass That Belts Them Out; Singing Fish Becomes Season’s Unlikely Hit" by Darragh Johnson, The Washington Post, July 30, 2000.

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  Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

  Pablo Casals

  Children, Miracle, World

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

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• When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.

  William Safire

  Needs, Looks, Dictionary

  "Dictionaurus" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. June 10, 2009.

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• What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose life he shares. As an inevitable corollary to this supreme truth comes the fact of the brotherhood of man.

  Annie Besant

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Essence

  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Annie Wood Besant, Charles Webster Leadbeater (1925). “To Members of the Theosophical Society: Being a Selection of Instructive Articles and Teachings”

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• I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

  Johnny Cash

  Study, Excited, Novel

  "Johnny Cash: 'I was evil. I really was' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Philip Norman, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2012.

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• Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful.

  Giles Andreae

  Depression, Believe, People

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• You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, Race, Survivor

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• If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

  Robert Doisneau

  Photography, Knowing, Cameras

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• Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Children, Years

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• People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

  J. K. Rowling

  Senior, Writing, Years

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• Like my grandmother always said, 'you never know the blessings that come from suffering.

  Joan Bauer

  Grandmother, Blessing, Suffering

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• I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

  Aeschylus

  Literature, Speak, Forget

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