It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
E. O. Wilson

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.
Howard Cosell

Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.
Simon Travaglia

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
Baltasar Gracian

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.
Vivienne Westwood

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
David Lee Roth

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
Samuel Butler

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

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

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.
Walter Bagehot

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
Charles Kettering

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
Charles Kettering

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.
Jeanne Moreau

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
Henry Van Dyke

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
Barry White

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

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
Paul Engle

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Charles de Montesquieu

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Charles de Montesquieu