Knowing Things Quotes - Page 2

• I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Knowing, People, Shy

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• I don't feel frightened by not knowing things.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Mysterious Universe, Knowing, Frightened

  "No Ordinary Genius". Book by Christopher Sykes (p. 239), 1994.

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• I'm a private person, I'm shy about people knowing things. And I'm really shy about my medical (care). It would be good if I could just go and heal and then when I decided to go out, it would be okay. It seems that there are areas that should be off-limits.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Knowing, People, Would Be

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• Prompt to move but firm to wait - knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.

  William Wordsworth

  Moving, Knowing, Waiting

  William Wordsworth (1849). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.386

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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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• When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Wisdom, Thinking

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• I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Death, Knowledge, Science

  "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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• Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and yet not even he could know that this next chapter was to be the most unusual-and most important-of his entire childhood. Indeed, the strange days that lay ahead would change him forever, though for now they had less substance than the mist through which he ran.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Knowing, Childhood, Forever

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• I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Knowing, People, Curiosity

  Interviews from Reddit's "ask me anything" forums, www.reddit.com. December 17, 2011.

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• Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.

  Nami Mun

  Odds, Knowing, Failing

  Nami Mun (2008). “Miles from Nowhere”, p.85, Penguin

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• True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Knowing, True Knowledge

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1803). “The works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: including her correspondence, poems, and essays”, p.183

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• Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

  Carlos Castaneda

  Knowing, Useless, Kind

  Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.

  Terry Pratchett

  Knowing, People, Knows

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “A Hat Full of Sky: (Discworld Novel 32)”, p.103, Random House

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• And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

  Plato

  Mean, Knowing, Words Of Wisdom

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• By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Knowing, Doe, Knows

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.45, Bottom of the Hill

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• Do not make Mistakes about Character. That is the worst and yet easiest error. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods. In dealing with men, more than with other things, it is necessary to look within. To know men is different from knowing things. It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Philosophy, Mistake, Book

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.64, Shambhala Publications

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