Knowing Quotes

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates

Wisdom, True, Nothing

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen

Friend, Healing, Confusion

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde

Education, Time, Nothing

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein

Creativity, Secret, Hide

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Brian Tracy

Attitude, Forward, Gratitude

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
Paulo Coelho

Waiting, Suffering, Forgetting

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Mark Twain

Person, Patriot, Loudest

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Margaret Thatcher

Success, Work, Hard

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Lao Tzu

Wisdom, Yourself, Others

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
Winston Churchill

Him, Drinking, Meeting

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau

Men, After, Lives

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.
Jim Rohn

Hurt, Give, Try

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Donald Trump

Fight, Give, Enough

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates

Knowledge, True, Nothing

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya Angelou

Nothing, Young, Believing

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt

Success, Important, Single

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
Pope John Paul II

Faith, Fear, Moving

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James

Art, Wise, Overlook

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden

Success, Peace, Best

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl Jung

Best, Darkness, Dealing

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
Michael Jackson

Everything, Same, Between

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates

Wisdom, Poetry, Mean

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Why, Admire, Admires

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Oprah Winfrey

Integrity, Real, Whether

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams

Art, Yourself, Mistakes

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
Confucius

Men, Ability, Concerned

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Aristotle

Life, Great, Wise

So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.
Ellen DeGeneres

Marriage, Live, Bad

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden

Success, Best, Become

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge, Cannot

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