Knowing Quotes

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more.

Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.

Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.

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.

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Being a small boy it's very daunting seeing the Queen around and not really quite knowing what to talk about.

Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.

There's no adventure in knowing the outcome of who you're supposed to be with.

Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.

What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.