Knowing Quotes - Page 13

...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.

To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love...

Keep calm and carry on. A challenging time is just that - a period in time. Taking a few deep breaths and knowing that it won't last forever really allows me to focus on the present moment and task at hand.

So many times we come to Jesus in worship and ask Him for things that He already IS and has already done... What a concept to come into worship knowing who we are approaching...the absolute fullness of God, pleased to dwell in this Jesus whom we worship. He's already broken the chains...already seated us with Him...already invited us 'into the glorious'.

Sophie," he said, and when she gave him a stern look, he took a hasty swig of the posset. “Miss Collins. I have not yet had a chance to properly apologize to you, so let me take it now. Please forgive me for the trick I played on you with the scones. I did not mean to show you disrespect. I hope you do not imagine I think any less of you for your position in the household, for you are one of the finest and bravest ladies I have ever had the pleasure of knowing.

Maybe the secret to continued success is as simple as knowing that your past successes could be done so much better now.

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

Now, knowing better, we can act better, we can live better, and give the animals, our children and ourselves a true reason for hope and celebration.

It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.

Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing.

Knowing is passing from the false to the true and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part.

Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids that can instinctively close against the words uttered, they can’t hide from what they sense they’re about to hear, it’s always too late.

No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now

Christ's mission is to release the divine into our conscious knowing. He awakens the impulse in humanity to rise above his lower nature and be aware of his higher nature that dwells within.

The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how.

Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.

Knowledge is the beginning of practice; doing is the completion of knowing.

Listen to yourself, not the noise of the world. Only you know what is right for you.

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better.

Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I've ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician.

The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

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.

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.