Not Knowing Quotes

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  Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

  Gilda Radner

  Life, Change, Goodbye

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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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 is true knowledge.
  Presuming to know is a disease.
  First realize that you are sick;
  then you can move toward health.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Moving, Knowing

  Laozi (2008). “Daodejing: A Literal-critical Translation”, University Press of Amer

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• Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Long Distance Relationship

  "By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept". Book by aulo Coelho, 1994.

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• We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.

  David Hawkins

  Learning, Knowing, Understanding

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• Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.

  Lauryn Hill

  Knowing

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• Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Giving Up, Mean, Knowing

  Twitter post from Jan 04, 2013

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• By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.

  Pema Chodron

  Strength, Buddhist, Knowing

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• Our minds have the need to know. When we dont know we make assumptions - they make us feel safer than not knowing. And we are pretty much always making assumptions.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Knowing, Mind, Needs

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• Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Business, War

  "The Three Essential Warren Buffett Quotes To Live By" by James Berman, www.forbes.com. April 20, 2014.

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• If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspiring, Success, Baseball

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• Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

  Emily Dickinson

  Encouraging, Spiritual, Not Giving Up

  Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

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• Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

  Sophocles

  Thinking, 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 state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Inspiration, Practice, Knowing

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• The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Knowing, Doors

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• I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything. There are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask "Why are we here?" I might think about it a little bit, and if I can't figure it out then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Mean, Humility, Acceptance

  "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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• 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. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

  Albert Einstein

  Happiness, Journey, Men

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• The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now

  Haruki Murakami

  Life And Love, Knowing, Right Now

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• In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure who we are, or who anyone else is, either.

  Pema Chodron

  Wisdom, Buddhist, Humor

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

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• The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Friendship, True Friend, Grief

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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• Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

  Don Herold

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Passion, Knowledge

  Twitter post from Apr 25, 2011

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• Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Knowing

  Bertrand Russell (1996). “Unpopular Essays”, p.38, Psychology Press

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• Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Meaningful, Knowing, Truth Is

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• Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing - not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything. If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you. Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.

  Adyashanti

  Fall, Simple, Knowing

  Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.139, Sounds True

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