Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

Thomas Haden Church

I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet.

Vernor Vinge

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

Tony Gilroy

I like knowing where I am in action sequences if I'm supposed to.

Socrates

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us to figure out, or at least imagine, what happened in between.

Plato

Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.

Ernest Hemingway

Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

Eudora Welty

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

Frederick Carl Frieseke

Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Fernando Pessoa

There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.

Cassandra Clare

Knowing is better than not knowing. Every time.

Jennifer Grey

I don't remember ever not knowing about acting.

Jean Racine

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

Friedrich Nietzsche

A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.

George Bernard Shaw

Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.

J. I. Packer

Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.

Jonathan Bennett

Lohan and I talk about just things that happen. It's Lindsay. She's great. I went from not knowing who she was to not being able to get rid of her because she's everywhere. She's on everything.

I think most of it comes from each person knowing their role on the team.

Nicole Parker

Just knowing what they are thinking, what moves they make, that really helps.

Just knowing we had the support of a Big Ten Coach, made us feel good.

David Jordan

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it

William Stafford

Wisdom is having things right in your lifeand knowing why.

Jean de la Bruyere

All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it.

Jayne Mansfield

It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted

Burt Bacharach

Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.

Ethan Hawke

It's interesting to work with Emma [Watson] so quickly after Harry Potter. When we shot this movie, it wasn't that long after Harry Potter was finished, and it's knowing that's a big transition in her life. She's a very talented young woman.

Ethan Hawke

There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

Chris Pronger

I used to have very good sixth sense - knowing exactly where someone was without seeing them.

Chris Hadfield

In my experience, fear comes from not knowing what to expect and not feeling you have any control over what’s about to happen. When you feel helpless, you’re far more afraid than you would be if you knew the facts.

Harry Frankfurt

Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.

Jennifer Capriati

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

Graham Greene

Nobody here could ever talk about a heaven on earth. Heaven remained rigidly in its proper place on the other side of death, and on this side flourished the injustices, the cruelties, the meanness that elsewhere people so cleverly hushed up. Here you could love human beings nearly as God loved them, knowing the worst: you didn't love a pose, a pretty dress, a sentiment artfully assumed.