Not Knowing Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, What Matters, Knowing

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• Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Knowing, Library, Guilty

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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• I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.

  Jeff Bridges

  Knowing, Political Will, Creating

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• I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

  Rosalia de Castro

  Travel, Adventure, Hiking

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• I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

  Confucius

  Life, Success, Smart

  Confucius (2005). “The Ethics of Confucius”, p.80, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.

  Willem Dafoe

  Thinking, Knowing, Balance

  "Willem Dafoe: 'You do your best work when you're scared'". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2012.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.

  Beth Ditto

  Play, Knowing, Listening

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