Not Knowing Quotes - Page 2

• In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure who we are, or who anyone else is, either.

  Pema Chodron

  Wisdom, Buddhist, Humor

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

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• The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing...that is a friend who cares.

  Henri Nouwen

  Friendship, True Friend, Grief

  "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

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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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• It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Passion, Knowledge

  Twitter post from Apr 25, 2011

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• I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.

  Philip Glass

  Creativity, Knowing, Interesting

  "Remixing Philip Glass". Interview with Zachary Woolfe, www.nytimes.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing - not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything. If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you. Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.

  Adyashanti

  Fall, Simple, Knowing

  Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.139, Sounds True

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• Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Knowing

  Bertrand Russell (1996). “Unpopular Essays”, p.38, Psychology Press

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• I don't need to try to push everyone out of the way and say, "This is how you do it. I actually like not knowing. I trust every lead.

  Dan Scanlon

  Knowing, Trying, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Knowing, Bragging

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.50, Harvard University Press

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• The not knowing would not keep me from caring.

  John Green

  Hipster, Caring, Knowing

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.160, Penguin

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• Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Knowing, Purpose

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.230, Princeton University Press

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• The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

  Rumi

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

  Agnes de Mille

  Life, Faith, Creativity

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Children, Grandmother, Ghouls

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.196, Pan Macmillan

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• As a younger person, my philosophy was jump off a cliff. I realize now that there are stairs and elevators. I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me. I can even ask for help! Not feeling that I have to know everything, and that’s where the growth comes in, in the not knowing.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Philosophy, Knowing, Space

  "Tracee Ellis Ross Gets Glam For Uptown Magazine ‘Hollywood’ Issue" by Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.

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• Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Meaningful, Knowing, Truth Is

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• I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Change, Education

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.

  Rumi

  Anniversary, Marriage, Valentines Day

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Untitled”

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• Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

  Ray Bradbury

  Knowing, Acting, Cliffs

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

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• Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all the way there. Stories are crescent moons; they glimmer in the night sky, but they are most exquisite in their incomplete state. Because people crave the beauty of not-knowing, the excitement of suggestion, and the sweet tragedy of mystery.

  Diana Abu-Jaber

  Sweet, Moon, Night

  Diana Abu-Jaber (2004). “Crescent: A Novel”, p.384, W. W. Norton & Company

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• So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Drama, Knowing, People

  "Ellen DeGeneres Sits Down with The Four Agreements Author don Miguel Ruiz". www.oprah.com. October 2001.

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• My ability to keep cool in a crisis is based entirely on not knowing all the facts.

  Garrison Keillor

  Knowing, Facts, Crisis

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• Because what nobody ever understood is that I, too, wanted to be a somebody. But how do you go through life wanting to be a someone and not knowing how?

  Debbi Fields

  Life, Change, Knowing

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• All I know from my own experience is that the more loss we feel the more grateful we should be for whatever it was we had to lose. It means that we had something worth grieving for. The ones I'm sorry for are the ones that go through life not knowing what grief is.

  Frank O'Connor

  Gratitude, Sorry, Grief

  Frank O'Connor (1969). “A Set of Variations: Twenty-seven Stories”

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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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