W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.”
“What we know about writing the novel is the novel.”
Source: On Writing
“What we know and believe is just a program; it is nothing but words, opinions, and ideas we learn from others and from our own life experience.”
“What we know as self-consciousness is only our opinion of ourselves, and like any other opinion it comes from outside; it is hearsay, our contribution to public opinion. We must become disobedient to it, resist it, no longer listen to it.”
Source: The Senses of Walden
“What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one thing is like something else is one of the earliest markers of the poetic spirit, the nascent poet.”
“What we know from lab studies is that it's never too late to break a habit. Habits are malleable throughout your entire life. But we also know that the best way to change a habit is to understand its structure - that once you tell people about the cue and the reward and you force them to recognize what those factors are in a behavior, it becomes much, much easier to change.”
“What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.”
“What we know in our minds is not automatically believed by our hearts.”
Source: Dew From Heaven: Answers to Prayer and Unexpected Inspiration
“What we know instinctively,” she continued, “is simply what we are trying to remember. Knowledge is memory.”
Source: Four Weird Tales
“What we know is a drop. What we don't know is the ocean.”
“What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.”
“What we know is everything, it is our limit, of what we can be.”
“What we know is far less important than what we use.”
“What we know is not always reflected in what we do.”
“What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.”
Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
“What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.”
“What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.”
“What we know is smartphones are everywhere and they are rich in data. What we know is that there are apps once downloaded by the consumer that will also in turn download the consumers' contact book. Most consumers don't want that to happen and don't know it's happening.”
“What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.”
“What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.”
“What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.”
“What we know matters but who we are matters more.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“What we know matters, but who we are matters more. Being rather than knowing requires showing up and letting ourselves be seen. It requires us to dare greatly, to be vulnerable.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“What we know of as logical is actually the most illogical thing in the universe.”
“What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.”
Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950
“What we know of others is our personal secret.”
Source: Irving Stone, three complete novels
“What we know of the past is enough to be afraid, enough to build this world, our good and golden world, around preventing a repeat of the mistakes that destroyed the world before.”
Source: Golden State
“What we know of the world comes to us through words, or, to look at it from the other direction, when we write a sentence, we create a world, which is not the world, but the world as is appears within a dimension of assessment.”
“What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.”
“What we label as challenges are keys to open doors that result in self-discovery...the unknown parts of ourselves that we need to tap into in order to evolve in life's journey.”
Source: On Becoming Restored
“What we lack in subtlety, we make up for with a lack of subtlety.”
“What we lack is a basic willingness to see literature as providing some kind of necessary foundation. Our society still expects schools to prepare their charges for work only and not for life. As such, literature is construed as at best technically useless and random, at worst socially disruptive.”
“What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation.”
“What we lack is intensity of life.”
Source: Memories, dreams, reflections
“What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.”
Source: A Way of Seeing
“What we learn for the sake of knowing, we hold; what we learn for the sake of accomplishing some ulterior end, we forget as soon as that end has been gained. This, too, is automatic action in the constitution of the mind itself, and it is fortunate and merciful that it is so, for otherwise our minds would be soon only rubbish-rooms.”
“What we learn from behavior economics is that the moment a metric is created it generates an incentive for people to pursue it.”
Source: Google Semantic Search: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques That Get Your Company More Traffic
“What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“What we learn from History is that no one learns from History”
“What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.”
“What we learn from the past is that you cannot make peace against people by interfering and - and just launching a war and trying to change a regime without any political solution. So my role is first to avoid any war and try to - to frame the discussion in order to create peace and have a comprehensive peace process and preserve unintelligible and especially in this Middle East region. That's what I tried to do in Lebanon, for instance, by negotiating both with M.B.S., with the Lebanese government.”
“What we learn from the past is to maximize the qualities of our future memories, not necessarily of our future experience. This is the tyranny of the remembering self.”
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
“What we learn in meditation, we can apply to all other realms of our lives.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“What we learn is that the scientist is as important a part of this experiment as the electron, and that the scientist and the electron are in fact connected. This experiment is the cornerstone of the holistic universe theory.”
Source: Random Acts Of Heroic Love
“What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.”
“What we learn through failure becomes a precious part of us, strengthening us in everything we do. So let the tough things make you tougher.”
“What we learn to call "natural" is actually just the dominant culture's interpretation of history.”
Source: Beyond Beliefs: A Guide to Improving Relationships and Communication for Vegans, Vegetarians, and Meat Eaters
“What we learn to do, we learn by doing.”
“What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it's gone.”
“What we learned in there is significantly more than what is out in the media today. I can't speak to what we learned in there, and I don't know if there are other leaks, if there is more information somewhere, if somebody else is going to step up, but I will tell you that I believe it's just the tip of the iceberg.”