Not Knowing Quotes - Page 20

• I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

  Jessica Simpson

  Courage, Stupid, Thinking

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• But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door.

  Garth Nix

  Fear, Thinking, Doors

  Garth Nix (2014). “Lirael”, p.301, Hot Key Books

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• Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Knowing, Would Be, Frightened

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008). “Half of a Yellow Sun”, p.493, Anchor

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• Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.

  Ally Carter

  Inspirational, Girly, Knowing

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• … in the relentless and meaningless manner one searches for something in a nightmare, coming on doors that won’t open or drawers that won’t shut, struggling over and over against the same meaningless thing, not knowing why the effort seems so desperate, why the sudden sight of a chair with a shawl thrown over it inspires the mind with horror.

  Anne Rice

  Struggle, Sight, Doors

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.600, Ballantine Books

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• There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor.

  Richelle Mead

  Knowing, Imagination, Waiting

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.318, Penguin

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• I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Humble, Knowing, Ego

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.138, Hamilton Books

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• Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

  Pema Chodron

  Disappointment, Adventure, Knowing

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• The novel has become a function of the fragmented society, the fragmented consciousness. Human beings are so divided, are becoming more and more divided, and more subdivided in themselves, reflecting the world, that they reach out desperately, not knowing they do it, for information about other groups inside their own country, let alone about groups in other countries. It is a blind grasping out for their own wholeness, and the novel-report is a means toward it.

  Doris Lessing

  Country, Mean, Knowing

  "The Golden Notebook (Free Women: 1)". Book by Doris Lessing, 1962.

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• I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Discovery, Knowing, Sitting

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• I’ve been thinking about that proof I spoke of last time – that you’re where you’re supposed to be. And it occurred to me, can you prove you’d be better off somewhere else? If you’d have left the state, your relationship would have ended still. Maybe you’d have even blamed yourself, not knowing that it was doomed because of him, either way. Instead, you’re here. You got dumped, skipped class, and met the best econ tutor at the university! Who knows, maybe I’ll make you fall in love with economics.

  Tammara Webber

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Somewhere Else

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• If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something.

  Terry Pratchett

  Knowing, Annoying, One Thing

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Mort: (Discworld Novel 4)”, p.102, Random House

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• He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn’t care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That’s the solution.

  Stephen King

  Tired, Men, Thinking

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Half: A Novel”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Knowing, Courageous

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.34, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Tears could not be equal, if I wept diamonds from the skies," Jenks whispered, empty and bereft. "My word silent, though I should howl. Muffled by death, my wings can't lift me high enough to find you. I feel you within. Unaware of my pain. Not knowing why I mourn. And why I breathe alone.

  Kim Harrison

  Pain, Sky, Wings

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• We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.

  Jewel

  Motivational, Dream, Knowing

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• I ultimately decided to hold my tongue and settle instead for the comfort of ignorance. Not knowing the truth, I retained hope, and that hope I held like a smooth warm stone against my heart.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Heart, Ignorance, Knowing

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Princess Ben”, p.125, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You can use reading as a food for the ego. It is very subtle. You can become knowledgeable; then it is dangerous and harmful. Then you are poisoning yourself, because knowledge is not knowing, knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom has nothing to do with knowledge. Wisdom can exist in total ignorance also. If you use reading just as a food for the mind, to increase your memory, then you are in a wrong direction. But reading can be used in a different way; then reading is as beautiful as anything else in life

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Memories, Reading

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• The charm of your society, My Sparrow, lies in not knowing what will you say next - though one rapidly learns to fear the worst!

  Georgette Heyer

  Lying, Knowing, Sparrows

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• Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.

  Brené Brown

  Knowing, Understanding, Victory

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.11, Penguin

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• The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place.

  Charles de Lint

  Real, Knowing, Want

  "The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint, 1995.

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• I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.

  Russell Baker

  Thinking, Who I Am, Clothes

  Russell Baker (1983). “So This Is Depravity”, Pocket Books

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• He sees himself in his lover as if in a mirror, not knowing whom he sees, And when they are together, he too is released from pain, and when apart, he longs as he himself is longed for; for reflected in his heart is love's image, which is love's answer. But he calls it, and believes it, not love but friendship.

  Mary Renault

  Pain, Believe, Heart

  "Phaedrus". Translated by Mary Renault in "The Charioteer", p. 104, 1953.

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• I guess I just sorta figured out early on that most of what people feared was based on things they had heard or read, rather than what they had seen or touched. That being said I do fear that dark in the sort of spooky illustrative sense, that whole idea of "not knowing" whats there. I had really bad problems with the spooks when I was young, but not for fear of aliens.

  Andy Biersack

  Dark, Ideas, Knowing

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• Success to me is self-determined, the life I live today, to come from a kid strung out on angel dust, homeless, at some points sleeping in the street. No money, not knowing where the next meal was coming from. No sex, no relationships, people that didn't love me, didn't care about me, to where I am today... that's successful. When I signed my record deal I always wanted to be respected by my peers for my ability and my skill level.

  Joe Budden

  Sex, Sleep, Kids

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