Not Knowing Quotes - Page 22

• The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

  Cesare Pavese

  Art, Lying, Believe

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.71, Transaction Publishers

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• The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.

  William Blake

  Art, Gifts Of The Spirit, Knowing

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.544, Univ of California Press

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• Not knowing the thing that’s chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you

  Oren Peli

  Knowing, Chasing, Seeing

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• Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing they have been made. Children go crazy. Really, even children go crazy, believing the shape of the life they must live is as small and mean and broken as they are told.

  Dorothy Allison

  Children, Crazy, Believe

  Dorothy Allison (1996). “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, p.47, Penguin

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• You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone else, and shuffle into another incarnation that won't be very different.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Pain, Ignorance

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• Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.

  Venus Williams

  Moving, Knowing, Years

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• But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.

  Debi Thomas

  Knowing, Patient, Impressed

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• You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc., and the perpetual strain of invention.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Book, Writing

  Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

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• There is a world of deaf, dumb and blind people out there, who are shuffling through their lives, not knowing how wonderful life can be. They have their moments, but they are very unconscious.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Knowing, People

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• When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing that I had already been secretly driving my mother's car around the neighborhood. When I took the test and got my license and my father gave me my own set of keys to the car one night at dinner, it was a major rite of passage for him and my mother. Their perception of me had changed and was formally acknowledged. For me the occasion meant a private sanction to do in public what I had already been doing in secret.

  Robert Fulghum

  Mother, Father, Teaching

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• The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

  Danny Huston

  Knowing, Stories, Tvs

  "Danny Huston on playing villains, Nick Cave, and more". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. November 12, 2012.

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• Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

  Vernor Vinge

  Knowing, Heaven, Pieces

  Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.93, Macmillan

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• A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Past, Journey, Knowing

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• It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write.

  Ally Condie

  Writing, Knowing, Interesting

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• I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?

  Rebecca Wells

  Heart, Knowing, Missing

  The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood ch. 31 (1996)

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• Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Clever, Somewhere Else, Knowing

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Apr 16, 2017

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• The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.
  The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash.

  Franz Kafka

  Animal, Order, Knowing

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to fail.

  James Lovelock

  Fall, Knowing, Sailing

  "The Revenge of Gaia". Interview with James Lovelock, www.theguardian.com. 2006.

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• A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we're headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Time, Knowing, Choices

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• What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.

  Nick Laird

  Selfish, Love Is, Opposites

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• I don't want to make promises, not knowing what the situation's going to be three or four years out.

  Barack Obama

  Knowing, Years, Promise

  Democratic debate, Hanover, New Hampshire, www.nbcnews.com. September 26, 2007.

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• And then Gossip Girl completely blew open the door to fashion for me. I'd go to fashion shows and call my publicist and say, 'Can I wear that?' I think I became my own stylist by not knowing any better. And once I was told it was time to get one, I thought: This is one of my favorite hobbies! And I'm going to pay someone to steal my hobby from me? That's a terrible idea!

  Blake Lively

  Girl, Fashion, Thinking

  "Ooh La La, Blake Lively Talks to Florence Welch About Clothes, Men and More!". Interview with Florence Welch, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2011.

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• Chankaya is referring there to the probibition of entry of the untrustworthy in the counsel-room. Disloyal persons foolishly speak out the secrets of the counsel not knowing the harmful effects of the same. Disclosing the secrets of the counsel mars the welfare of the country.

  Chanakya

  Country, Speaks Out, Knowing

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• Curiosity takes ignorance seriously - and is confident enough to admit when it's in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.

  Alain de Botton

  Ignorance, Dark, Knowing

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• We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to marriage to make it clear which ones of us are growing in the same directions and which are ships meant to have passed in the night.

  Merle Shain

  Marriage, Growing Up, Night

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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