Not Knowing Quotes

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

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

Waiting, Suffering, Knowing

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

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

Men, Knowing, Ability

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Warren Buffett

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Gilda Radner

Life, Change, Best

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.
Nelson Mandela

Morning, Knowing, Wake

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Tony Robbins

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
Bertrand Russell

Knowledge, Ignorance, Philosophy

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Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
Sophocles

Life, Knowing, Sweetest

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
Emily Dickinson

Door, Knowing, Open

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.
Bill Gates

Children, Focus, Thinking

A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.
Lil Wayne

Love, Women, Deep

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.
Alan Watts

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
Richard P. Feynman

Change, Time, Here

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Jonathan Swift

Men, Strength, Sometimes

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.
Jennifer Aniston

Love, Knowing, Unknown

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.
Jennifer Aniston

Job, Someone, Blame

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.
Naomi Judd

Time, Yourself, Trying

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
Golda Meir

History, Art, Knowing

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!
Jessica Simpson

Courage, Between, Knowing

I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.
Jeff Bridges

Food, End, Political

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.
Rosalia de Castro

Travel, Path, Knowing

I always get carried away when I'm kissing. I just go nuts! Walking away after it is the strangest moment for me. It's embarrassing - not knowing what to say to each other.
Robert Pattinson

After, Moment, Away

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
Sydney J. Harris

Life, Real, Through

Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
Xun Zi

Strength, Food, Death

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
Nina Simone

Young, Knowing, Heroes

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.
Serena Williams

Time, Nothing, Working

A lot of children don't find forever homes because they're on that special-needs list, even if it's because of something as simple as her mother smoked cigarettes for a month, not knowing she was pregnant.
Katherine Heigl

Mother, Simple, Children

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Life, Makes, Knowing

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