Browsing Topic Best Knowing Quotes

Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what pupils knows or is capable of knowing.

Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth

I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

That is the crowning evil, that we can even go so far as to love each other, you and I. And who else would show us a particle of love, a particle of compassion or mercy? Who else, knowing us as we know each other, could do anything but destroy us? Yet we can love each other.

the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that

Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.

But there are people who’ll try to hurt you through the good they see in you–knowing that it’s the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don’t let it break you when you discover that.

I can’t sleep without knowing there’s hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips… the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.

Smart is knowing if you’re dumb. Knowing when to shut up and to listen to people that are smarter than you.

Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.

Success is knowing that one other human being has breathed a little easier because you lived.

It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.

The secret to feeling attractive, and to being attractive, is the confidence that comes from knowing who you are and what you believe in.

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

The moon upon the ocean is swept around in motion, but without ever knowing.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

This is what I want. I want people to take care of me. I want them to force comfort upon me. I want the soft-pillow feeling that I associate with memories of being ill when I was younger, soft pillows and fresh linens and satin-edged blankets and hot chocolate. It’s not so much the comfort itself as knowing there’s someone who wants to take care of you.

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

Whatever exists at all exists in some amount. To know it thoroughly involves knowing its quantity as well as its quality.

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

There’s a truth deeper than experience. It’s beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It’s an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception. We’re helpless, usually, in the face of it; and the cost of knowing it, like the cost of knowing love, is sometimes greater than any heart would willingly pay. It doesn’t always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world. And the only way to know that truth is to share it, from heart to heart, just as Prabhakar told it to me, just as I’m telling it to you now.

Fundamentally, however, there is neither good nor evil; this is all based on human concepts. In the universe there exists neither good nor evil, because everything has been created in accordance with immutable laws. the divine principles are reflected in these laws, and only through knowing these laws will we be able to get close to the divine.

I’m going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision.

Knowing many things doesn’t teach insight.

Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.

Knowing that Ricky Gervais will never work again means a lot to me. I’m going to make sure of it.

Knowing belongs to man’s intellect or reason; loving belongs to his will. The object of the intellect is truth; the object of the will is goodness or love.

The most important part of my mental self-care is knowing who to call for what kinds of help.

Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.

I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love.

Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God’s knowing doesn’t count?

God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.

I accept that life is uncertain–that the goal is not to become more certain about anything but to relax more into the mystery of not knowing what will come next. And then, miracle of miracles, out there in the deep and uncertain water, I come into a peaceful knowing–a faithful wisdom that surpasses control and certainty.