Not Knowing Quotes - Page 26

• I am not young enough to know everything.

  James M. Barrie

  Book, Athlete, Knowledge

  The Admirable Crichton (performed 1902, pubd. 1914) act 1

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• I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you were listening to them." "What about the Beatles? Did you feel like shooting anyone listening to them?" Lee considered seriously for a moment, then said, "Myself." At the same time he was laughing, Ig was distressed. Not liking the Beatles was almost as bad as not knowing about them at all.

  Joe Hill

  Knowing, Laughing, Listening

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• But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.

  Samuel Beckett

  What Matters, Who I Am, Knowing

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.219, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• ...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

  Terry Pratchett

  Knowing, Done, Ingredients

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Nov 23, 2016

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• I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie

  William Faulkner

  Lying, Knowing, Watches

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.168, Modern Library

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• And it seemed hard to believe that these people who were so close to me couldn’t see how desperate I was, or if they could they didn’t care enough to do anything about it, or if they cared enough to do anything about it they didn’t believe there was anything they could do, not knowing—or not wanting to know—that their belief might have been the thing that made the difference.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Believe, Differences, Knowing

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• i hate not knowing what i did." _Eric

  Charlaine Harris

  Hate, Knowing, I Hate

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• The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Life, Jobs, Giving Up

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• The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.

  Erich Segal

  Pain, Knowing, Done

  Erich Segal (1970). “Love Story”

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• Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Knowing, Answers, Next

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• At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop there, that he would not be obliged to learn their sorrows; how small a thing her charm was for him now compared with the astounding terror that extended out from it like a murky halo, the immense anguish of not knowing at every moment what she had been doing, of not possessing her everywhere and always!

  Marcel Proust

  Knowing, People, Sensual

  Marcel Proust (2003). “In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's”, p.369, Penguin UK

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• What we don't let out traps us. We think, No one else feels this way, I must be crazy. So we don't say anything. And we become enveloped by a deep loneliness, not knowing where our feelings come from or what to do with them. Why do I feel this way?

  Sabrina Ward Harrison

  Inspirational, Crazy, Loneliness

  "Women of Courage: Inspiring Stories from the Women Who Lived Them". Book by Katherine Martin (p. 268), 1999.

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• I can't take not knowing what the next day will bring- the uncertainty is sawing me in two. The room is dark. A flickering candle burns on the window ledge a few feet away. I take a deep breath, which is to say, as deep a breath as I can take. "Are you okay?" Sarah asks. I wrap my arms around her. "I miss you," I say. "You miss me? But I'm right here." "That's the worst way to miss somebody. When they' re right beside you and you miss them anyway.

  Pittacus Lore

  Missing Someone, Dark, Two

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• Love is not knowing what you're talking about.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love Is, Talking, Knowing

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• You cannot travel back in time to fix your mistakes, but you can learn from them and forgive yourself for not knowing better.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Mistake, Knowing Better

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• There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Knowing Better, Knowing, Youth

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• Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Knowing

  "Four Years After the Oprah-Eckhart Tolle Web Class, What I Still Can Learn" by Meryl Davids Landau, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2012.

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• We walk around every day not knowing the exact level of risk and benefit associated with most of our actions, yet it remains our responsibility to decide what’s worth pursuing.

  Julie Foucher

  Responsibility, Knowing, Risk

  "On CrossFit and Risk" by Julie Foucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2014.

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• One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to 1, they wield power, they write legislation. When you have scientifically illiterate adults, you have undermined the very fabric of what makes a nation wealthy and strong.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Strong, Writing, Kids

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