Not Knowing Quotes - Page 22

• I don't want to make promises, not knowing what the situation's going to be three or four years out.

  Barack Obama

  Knowing, Years, Promise

  Democratic debate, Hanover, New Hampshire, www.nbcnews.com. September 26, 2007.

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• A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we're headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Time, Knowing, Choices

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• And then Gossip Girl completely blew open the door to fashion for me. I'd go to fashion shows and call my publicist and say, 'Can I wear that?' I think I became my own stylist by not knowing any better. And once I was told it was time to get one, I thought: This is one of my favorite hobbies! And I'm going to pay someone to steal my hobby from me? That's a terrible idea!

  Blake Lively

  Girl, Fashion, Thinking

  "Ooh La La, Blake Lively Talks to Florence Welch About Clothes, Men and More!". Interview with Florence Welch, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2011.

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• Chankaya is referring there to the probibition of entry of the untrustworthy in the counsel-room. Disloyal persons foolishly speak out the secrets of the counsel not knowing the harmful effects of the same. Disclosing the secrets of the counsel mars the welfare of the country.

  Chanakya

  Country, Speaks Out, Knowing

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• Curiosity takes ignorance seriously - and is confident enough to admit when it's in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.

  Alain de Botton

  Ignorance, Dark, Knowing

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• When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.

  Martin McDonagh

  Writing, Character, Knowing

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• Things are always changing. Part of being successful here is being comfortable with not knowing what's going to happen.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Successful, Knowing, Happens

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• The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity.... The law gives me my seat. In the name of the law I ask for it. I regret that my personality overshadows the principles involved in this great struggle; but I would ask those who have touched my life, not knowing it, who have found for me vices which I do not remember in the memory of my life, I would ask them whether all can afford to cast the first stone ... then that, as best judges, they will vacate their own seats, having deprived my constituents of their right here to mine.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Strong, Regret, Memories

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• One reason why so many people are unhappy, not knowing why, is that they have burdened their minds with resentments. These evil thoughts pile right on top of happier and generous ones and smother them so that they never get expression. Resentments are a form of hate.... What a dearth of good will and co-operation there are among human beings and nations! What a world this would be if we all worked together, and as a popular diplomat recently expressed it-played together!

  George Matthew Adams

  Hate, Expression, Knowing

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• Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, "This is good enough for you." The audience, thrust into that familiar American mood of knowing something is wrong but not knowing what it is, unconsciously absorbs the insult and projects it back onto the mediocre performer in the form of inattention, rudeness and noise.

  Florence King

  Knowing, Mediocrity, Singers

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.58, Macmillan

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• There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.

  Peter Brodie

  Wisdom, Latin, Knowledge

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• The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.

  Andrew Loomis

  Knowing, Effort, Difficulty

  Andrew Loomis (2017). “The Successful Drawing”, p.29, EDITORA BIBLIOMUNDI SERVIÇOS DIGITAIS LTDA

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• When a path opens up before us that leads we know not where, don't be afraid to follow it. Our lives are meant to be mysterious journeys, unfolding one step at a time. Often we follow a path worn smooth by the many and in doing so we lose our authenticity, our individuality, our own unique expression. Do not be afraid to lose your way. Out of chaos, clarity will eventually rise. Out of not knowing, something new and unknown will ultimately come. Do not order things too swiftly. Wait and the miracle will appear.

  Ann Mortifee

  Unique, Journey, Expression

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• Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.

  Joyce Brothers

  Knowing, Knows, Seems

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• Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing so wide diversification is only required when investors are ignorant. You only have to do a very few things in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

  Warren Buffett

  Knowing, Long, Risk

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• Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is, we lose track of the Original Mind and are tormented all the time by the threatening objective world, regarding it as good or bad, true or false, agreeable or disagreeable. We are thus slaves of things and circumstances.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Running, Time, Past

  D.T. Suzuki (2014). “Manual of Zen Buddhism”, p.68, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is thus that we walk through the world like the blind, not knowing whither we are going, regarding as bad what is good, regarding as good what is bad, and ever in entire ignorance.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Ignorance, Knowing, World

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• Learning to say prayers in a foreign language...is not in itself the way to fulfill our highest human potential; there is nothing of transcending value to be gained from substituting one set of cultural conventions for another. People whose practice remains on this superficial level end up with nothing but confusion, not knowing who they are or what they should do.

  Thubten Yeshe

  Prayer, Learning, Practice

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• All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

  Blaise Pascal

  Knowing, Misery, Mankind

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• We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Law, Knowing, Sausage

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• Don't look down on them for looking down on us. Look at them, instead, as friends we don't know yet and who don't yet know what they are missing in not knowing us.

  Frederick Buechner

  Knowing, Missing, Looks

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith”, p.372, Zondervan

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• Our rash faults
  Make trivial price of serious thing we have,
  Not knowing them until we know their grave.

  William Shakespeare

  Knowing, Serious Things, Faults

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.53

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• I try my jokes onstage. The only way to really find out if something is going to work is to try it on stage, and I try to be careful and bookend something new with a strong bit before and a strong bit afterwards. But it's fun to run on virgin snow. I like that feeling onstage of creating new footprints and not knowing what's going to happen.

  Brian Regan

  Running, Strong, Fun

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• When I got out of high school I hit the road. I lived like a gypsy. Those were the best times of my life. I was living from club to club not knowing where my next meal was coming from. No credit cards, no apartment, no bills, no managers, just on the road with a truck and five guys.

  Rex Smith

  School, Knowing, Guy

  "New Again: Rex Smith". Interview with Andy Warhol, Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2015.

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• For better or worse we live in a very exposing [time] where, if you choose to, everyone can see everyone's business. You see what they're having for breakfast, where they are, what they're doing. Whereas I think that classic idea of mystery is very seductive. Not knowing every single thing about a person, what they're thinking, that's very powerful. And it would be a shame if we lost that totally.

  Theo James

  Powerful, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.glamour.com

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