“After a break-up people always claim that things will get better, and in fact they do. ( but not because we in fact ARE better but that the pain, has beaten every last ounce of feeling from us. after we are wasted away, because food and drink seems to be like sand being choked down, and sleep is no comfort because you know you'll dream of them, and have to wake with knowing they'll not be there. after all this is accepted, we are what people claim is 'better'.” PeopleKnowsFactsFeelingsDreamSeemsPainLastsSleepBreakKnowingDrinkComfortClaimsDown AndAcceptedGet BetterSandBeatenFood And DrinkAfter Break UpThings Will Get Better Author:Gabriel Macht
“..the real world's all we've got. Believers in the supernatural claim to have special wisdom about the world. But real wisdom means knowing truth from falsehood, knowing the difference between evidence and wishful thinking. Yes, the real world is mysterious and sometimes frightening. But would the supernatural make it better? The real world has beauty, poetry, love and the joy of honest discovery. Isn't that enough?” ThinkingWorldMeanRealSometimesEnoughJoyDifferencesKnowingSpecialHonestEvidenceDiscoveryClaimsBelieverMysteriousReal WorldFrighteningFalsehoodLove PoetryWishful ThinkingReal WisdomBeauty Poetry Author:John Stossel
“To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smarter than you, who claim to know nothing.” KnowsMenKnowingClaimsSmarterTrue KnowledgeKnowing Nothing Author:Socrates
“I found myself desiring and knowing less and less, until I could say in utter astonishment: "I know nothing, I want nothing." Earlier I was sure of so many things, now I am sure of nothing. But I feel I have lost nothing by not knowing, because all my knowledge was false. My not knowing was in itself knowledge of the fact that all my knowledge is ignorance, that "I do not know" is the only true statement the mind can make....I do not claim to know what you do not. In fact, I know much less than you do.” KnowsWantFeelsMindFactsFoundLostKnowingIgnoranceClaimsStatementsNot KnowingSelf KnowledgeAstonishment Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.” PeopleReasonKnowingToo MuchClaimsKnowing Too Much Author:Margaret Atwood
“The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.” IfsMenWorldTwoAgePastJusticeLossCommonSecretKnowingYouthClaimsBonesSlyAge And Youth Book:Cities of the Plain: Book 3 of Border Trilogy Source: Cities of the Plain: Book 3 of Border Trilogy
“What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.” KnowsBelieveHeartPersonsEnoughSufferingSpeakSilenceLibertyForeverKnowingWeekBrokenMy HeartCreaturesClaimsBoundsProofDo You KnowDividedBelieve In MeAgain And AgainSensibilityRuinedPressing OnMarianne DashwoodKnowing Myself Author:Jane Austen
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy.” KnowsBelieveTwoUseLyingPartyOpinionKnowingDemocracyImpossibleHonestyMoralityIntegrityConsciousLogicClaimsCitizenshipGuardian Book:Animal Farm and 1984 Source: Animal Farm and 1984
“I hope to make pictures like I walk in the desert—under a spell, an instinct of motion, a kind of knowing that is essentially indirect and sideways.Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like home–not by story or blood but merely by their forms and colors. How our perceptions are our only internal map of the world, how there are places that claim you and places that warn you away. How you can fall in love with the light.” WorldFeelsKindStoriesHomeLightFormCertainFallWalksKnowingBloodLandColorPerceptionClaimsInstinctFalling In LoveHardestDesertInternalsMapsSpellsSeductionGeographyIndirectSideways Author:Ellen Meloy