Not Knowing Quotes - Page 3

• I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities sometimes concern facets a man does not know he has. How often one goes to sleep troubled and full of pain, not knowing what causes the travail, and in the morning a whole new direction and a clearness is there, maybe the results of the black reasoning. And again there are mornings when ecstasy bubbles in the blood, and the stomach and chest are tight and electric with joy, and nothing in the thoughts to justify it or cause it.

  John Steinbeck

  Morning, Pain, Believe

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.286, Penguin

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• Know what you do not know.

  Gautama Buddha

  Knowledge, Dilemma, Knows

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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• Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Letting Go, Knowledge, Knowing

  "Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure". Book by Richard E. Byrd, 1938.

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• Your happy destiny is unavoidable. You cannot be "saved." There is no hell except not knowing this.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Destiny, Knowing, Spirituality

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.93, Penguin

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• You are carrying a masterpiece hidden within you, but you are standing in the way. Just move aside, then the masterpiece will be revealed. Everyone is a masterpiece, because God never gives birth to anything less than that. Everyone carries that masterpiece hidden for many lives, not knowing who they are and just trying on the surface to become someone. Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it. God himself has created you; you cannot be improved.

  Rajneesh

  God, Moving, Ideas

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• I've always loved life, and I've never known what's ahead. I love not knowing what might be round the corner. I love serendipity.

  Twiggy

  Knowing, Serendipity, Might

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• The beauty of life is not knowing.

  Matisyahu

  Knowing, Life Is, Beauty Of Life

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• As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not aware that there was such a creature. He said he could not blame himself for not knowing about the dinosaur, because it was an American animal and America had not then been discovered.

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Boys, Knowing

  Mark Twain (2017). “MARK TWAIN Ultimate Collection: 370+ Titles in One Volume (Illustrated): The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, The £1,000,000 Bank Note, A Horse’s Tale, Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Innocents Abroad, Life on the Mississippi…”, p.5018, e-artnow

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• When we believe we have all the answers, we are not open to mystery. To begin a mystical journey, you have to start with a sense of wonder, of not knowing where you are going or how you will travel. The initial phase of alchemy is called the nigredo-it's the phase of darkness, when it's "blacker than black." You feel this when you start something new-go off to college, start a new job, travel to a foreign land, or end a relationship that is not working.

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Jobs, Believe, Journey

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong?

  Alan Watts

  Ignorance, Sky, Knowing

  Alan Watts (2010). “Tao: The Watercourse Way”, p.49, Souvenir Press

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• We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.

  George Eliot

  Knowing, Judging, Judgment

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1275, Wordsworth Editions

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• It's so weird, not knowing what your life is going to be. I'm being optimistic. And when 'Leverage' comes to an end, I have lots of ideas for other things. You can't really sit and wait for things to come to you.

  Beth Riesgraf

  Optimistic, Ideas, Knowing

  "Beth Riesgraf Talks About 'Leverage,' Filming in Portland, and Her 'Adrenaline Junkie' Character". Interview with Kristi Turnquist, www.oregonlive.com. August 18, 2012.

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• True listening is never self-effacement. We bring the whole self to the process, rather than denying self. When we truly listen, we aren't just waiting for someone else to decide something so we can get on with things, or so we don't have to decide for ourselves. We aren't giving away our own powers to be seen and heard. When we listen, first we listen to the parts of ourselves that are curious, in avoidance, afraid, angry, or proud. Then we can take a breath and sink, allowing those parts some space alongside the spaciousness of not knowing.

  T. Thorn Coyle

  Self, Knowing, Space

  T. Thorn Coyle (2013). “Make Magic of Your Life: Passion, Purpose, and the Power of Desire”, p.34, Weiser Books

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• I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.

  Wayne Rogers

  Knowing, Actors, Position

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• It's like being on Death Row in an American jail. You are waiting for the door handle to turn, not knowing whether it's a reprieve or just your final breakfast before being executed.

  Howard Wilkinson

  Doors, Knowing, Jail

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• The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space - something I never noticed before! In one week, I went from not knowing how to draw to sketching a detailed portrait. It literally changed the way I see things.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Teacher, Light, Drawing

  "Why right-brainers will rule this century". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2009.

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• But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life.

  William Carlos Williams

  Art, Lying, Writing

  William Carlos Williams (1920). “Kora in Hell: Improvisations”

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• I went from not knowing anything to becoming really curious and wanting to know and respecting people in the industry, realizing how hard they work. I will always be thankful for 'Top Model' for that.

  Fatima Siad

  Knowing, People, Being Thankful

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• While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or of ignorance. Knowledge is not so precise a concept as is commonly thought. Instead of saying 'I know this', we ought to say 'I more or less know something more or less like this'. ... Knowledge in practical affairs has not the certainty or the precision of arithmetic.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• Creativity is the joy of not knowing it all.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Creativity, Knowing

  Ernie J. Zelinski (1994). “The Joy of Not Knowing It All: Profiting from Creativity at Work Or Play”, VIP Books

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• Never feel dumb. Not knowing who or what is no sin. Ignorance is simply the measure of what you haven't got to yet. I find writers and works every day that I haven't got to, haven't even heard of.

  Thomas C Foster

  Ignorance, Knowing, Stupidity

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• Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out.

  Rider Strong

  Stress, Knowing, Cabins

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• To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

  Morning, Crazy, Snakes

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• Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Country, Knowing, Law

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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