Not Knowing Quotes - Page 13

• Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Errors, Knowing

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• Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Knowing, Taoism

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• As an actress, there's nothing worse than not knowing your cues.

  Kristin Davis

  Knowing, Actresses

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• We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic [AIDS] every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it's like, what we're going through. We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country.

  Larry Kramer

  Country, Crazy, War

  The Normal Heart act 2, sc. 11 (1985)

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• Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Falling In Love, Knowing, People

  Sarah Addison Allen (2007). “Garden Spells”, p.177, Bantam

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• So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried, but when I held that nine, all I could see was my mama's eyes, no one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble, not knowing it's hard to carry on when no one loves you.

  Tupac Shakur

  Suicide, Struggle, Love You

  Song: Thugz Mansion

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• Everybody hates dependence, and that's why couples are continuously fighting, not knowing why they are fighting. They have to meditate over it, they have to contemplate over it, why they are fighting. Everything is just an excuse to fight. If you change one excuse, another excuse will be found; if no excuse is left then excuses will be invented, but somehow the fight has to be there.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Couple, Hate

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• Either I'm alive or I'm dying, she said to Daniel. Please don't feel you can't tell me. Which is it?
  Which does it feel like? said Daniel. He patted her hand. You're not dead yet. You're a lot more alive than many people.
  This isn't good enough for Rennie. She wants something definite, the real truth, one way or the other. Then she will know what she should do next. It's this suspension, hanging in a void, this half-life she can't bear. She can't bear not knowing. She doesn't want to know.

  Margaret Atwood

  Life, Truth, Real

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bodily Harm”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• And now I send these pages forth, not knowing what shall befall them, but with the earnest prayer that they may be blessed to aid the cause of truth and righteousness, and that He in whose name they are written may, of His mercy, "Forgive them where they fail in truth, And in His wisdom make me wise."

  Frederic Farrar

  Wise, Wisdom, Prayer

  Frederic William Farrar (1891). “The Sweet Story of Jesus: The Life of Christ”

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• Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and this in turn causes us to turn away from life and doubt its benevolence.

  John Welwood

  Love, Trust, Knowing

  John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

  Walter Bagehot

  Knowing, People, Mind

  Walter Bagehot (1858). “Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen”, p.337

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• Not knowing what will happen makes life fun.

  Akechi Mitsuhide

  Fun, Knowing, Happens

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• I wonder which is worse-the death, not knowing what comes after, or the wedding, when you think you know, but you're wrong.

  Sharyn McCrumb

  Thinking, Knowing, Wonder

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• Four hundred year old trees, who draw aliveness from the earth like smoke from the heart of God, we come, not knowing you will hush our little want to be big; we come, not knowing that all the work is so much busyness of mind; all the worry, so much busyness of heart. As the sun warms anything near, being warms everything still and the great still things that outlast us make us crack like leaves of laurel releasing a fragrance that has always been.

  Mark Nepo

  Heart, Knowing, Years

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• People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Art, Reading, Men

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• Miss the present and you live in boredom. BE in the present and you will be surprised that there is no boredom at all. Start by looking around a little more like a child. Be a child again! That's what meditation is all about: being a child again - a rebirth, being innocent again, not-knowing.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Knowing, Boredom

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• Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Thinking, Knowing, Too Much

  Statement on November 11, 1947. "Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead". Book by Alfred North Whitehead. Chapter 43,, 1954.

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• I really have branched out into areas where I'm totally uncertain, which is very exciting for me. I kind of like not knowing what I'm doing.

  Shary Boyle

  Knowing, Kind, Uncertain

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• The Christian life is not knowing or hearing, but doing.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Christian, Knowing, Hearing

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 112, 1895.

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• The country was a dreamland; and perhaps it even reminded my wife's grandfather of the night he woke up drunk in his friend's house, beside his friend's wife, everything similar but new, different, better. The United States of America was like an eternity of those first disorientating seconds of not knowing and not wanting to.

  Tod Wodicka

  Country, Night, Knowing

  Tod Wodicka (2008). “All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well”, p.87, Random House

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• The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having the mind move in unanticipated directions, there would be no invention.

  Donald Barthelme

  Art, Moving, Knowing

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• At times it may seem worse - harder, at least - to live through the despair of this loss without the temporary comfort of our addictive behaviour. We cannot drown our sorrows. We must face the fact that we don’t know, really, where we are, how we got here, how long the pain will last, or how to move past it. That uncertainty may be the most painful part of not knowing a God: no one is there to reassure us that a God will take the pain and confusion away. We simply don’t know. And we have no way to numb ourselves or to forget the condition we’re in.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Pain, Moving, Loss

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• A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.

  Cesare Pavese

  Dream, Knowing, Creation

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.171, Transaction Publishers

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• I'm excited about what the future holds. I'm not a fortune-teller; I have no idea how it will play out. People say, "What are you going to do?" I don't know. I kind of love that not knowing.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Play, Ideas, Knowing

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• I love the thought of not knowing how things will turn out but the willingness to invest anyway.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Knowing, Turns, Willingness

  Kristin Armstrong (2011). “Mile Markers: The 26.2 Most Important Reasons Why Women Run”, p.5, Rodale

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