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  • True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1803). “The works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: including her correspondence, poems, and essays”, p.183
  • Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.

    Knowing   People   Knows  
    Terry Pratchett (2010). “A Hat Full of Sky: (Discworld Novel 32)”, p.103, Random House
  • Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

    Knowing   Useless   Kind  
    Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.9, Univ of California Press
  • I am not young enough to know everything.

    The Admirable Crichton (performed 1902, pubd. 1914) act 1
  • When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

    Love   Wisdom   Thinking  
  • Do not make Mistakes about Character. That is the worst and yet easiest error. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods. In dealing with men, more than with other things, it is necessary to look within. To know men is different from knowing things. It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

    Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.64, Shambhala Publications
  • The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.

    Men   Knowing   Curiosity  
    Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.535
  • I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything. There are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask "Why are we here?" I might think about it a little bit, and if I can't figure it out then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell.

    "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.
  • And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

  • The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.

    Matthew Arnold (2013). “Celtic Literature”, p.9, Lulu Press, Inc
  • 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.

    "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.
  • That's one form of magic, of course." "What, just knowing things?" "Knowing things that other people don't know.

    Knowing   People   Magic  
    Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.22, Harper Collins
  • Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.

    Interviews from Reddit's "ask me anything" forums, www.reddit.com. December 17, 2011.
  • By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist.

    Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.45, Bottom of the Hill
  • I'm a private person, I'm shy about people knowing things. And I'm really shy about my medical (care). It would be good if I could just go and heal and then when I decided to go out, it would be okay. It seems that there are areas that should be off-limits.

  • The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of the meditation knowing things ... things that are inexpressible.

    Wisdom   Buddhism   Light  
  • Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.

    Odds   Knowing   Failing  
    Nami Mun (2008). “Miles from Nowhere”, p.85, Penguin
  • I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.

    Knowing   People   Shy  
  • When you meditate and still your mind, you will gain the wisdom of knowing things in this world, in other worlds and beyond worlds - it just comes to you.

  • Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

  • Prompt to move but firm to wait - knowing things rashly sought are rarely found.

    William Wordsworth (1849). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.386
  • If your project or organization depends on knowing things that other people don't know (but could find out if they wanted to), your days are probably numbered. Ask a travel agent The alternative, while difficult, is obvious. Provide enough non-commodity service and customization that it doesn't matter if the ideas spread. In fact, it will help you when they do.

  • The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: he merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him. But he isn't dull.

    Real   Angel   Men  
    Diary entry regarding Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, in July 1924. "Letters of C. S. Lewis". Book edited by W. H. Lewis, p. 97, 1966.
  • Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

    Speech to Hamilton Club, Chicago, Ill., 10 Apr. 1899 See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 18
  • I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

    Richard P. Feynman (2005). “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman”, p.21, Hachette UK
  • I don't feel frightened by not knowing things.

    "No Ordinary Genius". Book by Christopher Sykes (p. 239), 1994.
  • Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and yet not even he could know that this next chapter was to be the most unusual-and most important-of his entire childhood. Indeed, the strange days that lay ahead would change him forever, though for now they had less substance than the mist through which he ran.

  • You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

    "What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All". Book by Yogi Berra, 2003.
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