Knowing Quotes

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  Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

  Gilda Radner

  Life, Change, Goodbye

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• I always look at myself knowing that I will have a certain degree of cognitive distortion.

  Sarah Silverman

  Degrees, Looks, Distortion

  "Sarah Silverman Opens Up About Depression, Comedy And Troublemaking". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 22, 2015.

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• I went through a furnace and came out knowing who I am.

  Britta Phillips

  Who I Am, Furnaces

  "Britta Phillips Branches Out". Interview with William J. Simmons, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 9, 2016.

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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 only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

  Socrates

  Wise, Wisdom, Philosophy

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• The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

  Alfred Adler

  Drinking, Humor, People

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• I actually don't believe that everybody should necessarily try to learn to code. I think it's reasonably specialized, and nobody really expects most people to have to do it. It's not like knowing how to read and write and do basic math.

  Linus Torvalds

  Believe, Writing, Math

  "A Conversation With Linus Torvalds, Who Built The World's Most Robust Operating System And Gave It Away For Free". Interview with Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. June 7, 2014.

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  Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

  Miles Kington

  Funny, Hilarious, Wise

  The Independent (UK), March 28, 2003.

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• Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

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  Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

  Benjamin Spock

  Positive, Family, Trust

  The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

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• Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Leadership, Thoughtful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Never give up on your dream... because you never know what the Lord can bless you with.

  Kelly Rowland

  Motivational, God, Dream

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• There is really no way we can know the heart, the intentions, or the circumstances of someone who might say or do something we find reason to criticize. Thus the commandment: 'Judge not.'

  Thomas S. Monson

  Christian, Religious, Heart

  FaceBook post by Thomas S Monson from Mar 04, 2015

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• I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Suicide, Real

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• I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• All my family, my blood, is mixed up now. They don't even all know each other. I just hope they don't never hate or fight each other, not knowin who they are. Cause all these people livin are brothers and sisters and cousins. All these beautiful different colors! We!... We the human Family. God says so! FAMILY!

  J. California Cooper

  Family, Sister, Beautiful

  FaceBook post by J. California Cooper from Jul 04, 2012

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• Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Crush, Morning

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• You won't learn if you think you already know everything.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Education, Learning, Thinking

  Twitter post from Aug 04, 2014

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• Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Miracle, Statistics

  Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• No one truly knows what they will do in a certain situation until they are actually in it. It's very easy to judge someone else's actions by what you assume your own would be, if you were in their shoes. But we only know what we THINK we would do, not what we WOULD do.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Thinking, Shoes, Judging

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• Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

  Don Herold

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Time, Might, Lasts

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.88, Macmillan

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• Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Long Distance Relationship

  "By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept". Book by aulo Coelho, 1994.

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• The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Ignorance

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