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“People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.”

People Causes Knowing Sake Secrecy

Author:William Hazlitt

“There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.”

Men Done Knowing Endless Merit

Book:Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ

Source: Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ

“We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us to fear and hate, knowing when we are in the grip of a great fear, we will abandon common sense and wisdom, we will forsake the hard-won lessons of time and experience.”

Firsts Hard Wisdom Hate Causes Common Support Courage Knowing Wise Lessons Seeking Common Sense Abandon Being Wise Forsake

Author:Philip Gulley

“Your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism.”

Ifs Quality Knowing Doubt Criticism Train Good Quality

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.”

Writing Night Knowing Tomorrow Bed Planning

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul.”

Want Soul Knowing Customers

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“The art of genius is knowing how far out is too far.”

Art Knowing Genius

Author:Jean Cocteau

“But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life.”

Source: Kora in Hell: Improvisations

“Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers knowing the depth of the water. Each stroke helps them onward to a definite objective.”

Helping Water Knowing Activity Depth Currents Objectives Streams Definite Strokes Here And There Reeds Swimmer

Author:Margaret Sanger

“This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality and the terrors of fatigue, will have to cling to what is close to him, to what he knows, to what he can do. . .”

Knows World Evil Can Do Knowing Terror Limitation Fatigue Superficiality

Book:Uncommon Sense

Source: Uncommon Sense

“A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.”

People Firsts Mean Important Young Order Education Knowing First Things First

Book:In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World

Source: In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World

“Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.”

Form Rooms Knowledge Knowing Fields Historical Leaving Variety Judgement

Book:History as the Story of Liberty

Source: History as the Story of Liberty

“When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.”

Inspirational Teach Knowing

Author:Peter McWilliams

“You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which you ought to steer.”

Loses Knowing Seeing Fashion Ought Mercy Sight Instant Steers

Book:The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Source: The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“I who have set my heart on watching over the soul, in union with Good Thought, and as knowing the rewards of Mazda Ahura for our works, will, while I have power and strength, teach men to seek after Right. I have become an alien in a foreign land.”

Men Heart Soul Teach Knowing Teaching Land My Heart Unions Rewards Aliens Good Thoughts Foreign Lands Power And Strength

Author:Zoroaster

“Those who offend us are generally punished for the offence they give; but we so frequently miss the satisfaction of knowing that we are avenged !.”

Giving Knowing Missing Satisfaction Offence

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.”

Practice Knowing Heard

Book:Xunzi: Books 7-16

Source: Xunzi: Books 7-16

“If you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily, and yet not absorbed by it, remember that the one power whereby you can so act is, that all shall be consecrated to Christ, and done for His sake.”

Ifs World Want Done Remember Christ Knowing This World Duty Blessing Sake Consecration

Book:Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester

Source: Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester

“I would have artists be convinced that the supreme skill and art in painting consists in knowing how to use black and white... because it is light and shade that make objects appear in relief.”

Art Use Light Artist Black White Knowing Objects Painting Skills Convinced Supreme Relief Shade Black And White

Author:Leon Battista Alberti

“I hate the assumption that once you're committed to someone you stop treating each other like individuals. I like getting up knowing I am choosing to be with that person.”

Persons Hate Individual Knowing I Hate Committed Assumption

Author:Susan Sarandon

“Oh, I wonder if I will ever feel the burst of birth-joy, that knowing that the indescribable, joyous thing that has wooed and wond me has passed through my life and produced one atom of the great reality.”

Ifs Feels Reality Joy Wonder Knowing Birth Atoms Joyous Indescribable

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.”

Knows Hard Night Rooms Knowing Cry My Family Personal Life Your Room Who To Trust

Author:Lady Gaga

“of rhythm is image / of image is knowing / of knowing there is / a construct”

Knowing Rhythm Constructs

Book:Collected Prose

Source: Collected Prose

“Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.”

Self Beautiful Knowledge Knowing Ignorance Ugly

Author:Plotinus

“Knowing that language has done so much, we want to believe that it can do everything.”

Want Believe Done Language Can Do Knowing

Author:Denis Donoghue

“For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?”

Writing Years Art Ideas Felt Talking Knowing Produce Draws Critics No Idea Mistrust Rhyming Couplets

Author:Adam Gopnik

“I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing it.”

Book:Winslow Homer in the 1890s: Prout's Neck observed : essays

Source: Winslow Homer in the 1890s: Prout's Neck observed : essays

“My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind... Knowing I can fix whatever goes wrong allows me to paint, not without thought, but without hesitation.”

I Can Knowing Risk Paint Caught Willingness Hesitation

Author:Brian Johnson

“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'.”

People Knows Facts Feelings Dream Seems Pain Lasts Sleep Break Knowing Drink Comfort Claims Down And Accepted Get Better Sand Beaten Food And Drink After Break Up Things Will Get Better

Author:Gabriel Macht

“Parents are not the all-knowing, ideal people we would like you to think we are. We've made wrong choices before, and will again, like everyone else, .. But our mistakes are not the measure of our love for you. You are that measure, and how well you are prepared to make better choices than we have made.”

People Thinking Wells Made Choices Parent Mistake Knowing Like You Ideals Prepared Our Love Wrong Choices

Book:Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember

Source: Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember

“Everyone has a right to an opinion. I can arrive in England and express my opinion. If criticism were ferocious and without intellectual objectivity they should show me the way to their airport. It is important to have an opinion and not be afraid to express it, knowing there will be criticism.”

Ifs Way Should I Can Important Shows Opinion Knowing Intellectual Criticism England Show Me Airports Objectivity

Author:Jose Mourinho

“The teacher showed us how to see proportions, relationships, light and shadow, negative space, and space between space - something I never noticed before! In one week, I went from not knowing how to draw to sketching a detailed portrait. It literally changed the way I see things.”

Way Light Space Knowing Teacher Week Changed Draws Shadow Negative Drawing Proportion Not Knowing Portraits Space Between Sketching Light And Shadow Negative Space

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“I like hiding somewhere, like, say on a bus street in a doorway, and taking pictures without people knowing - which sounds really creepy....You get some of the most interesting pictures because people are walking past not realising you're there.”

People Past Sound Interesting Knowing Streets Walking Hiding Realising Bus Most Interesting Creepy Doorways Taking Pictures Really Creepy

Author:Anna Paquin

“We have the authority to take action, but responsible authority means not only being able to take action, but knowing when and how to take that action.”

Mean Able Action Knowing Authority Responsible

Author:Janet Reno

“It's like being on Death Row in an American jail. You are waiting for the door handle to turn, not knowing whether it's a reprieve or just your final breakfast before being executed.”

Turns Waiting Knowing Doors Finals Handle Jail Breakfast Not Knowing Death Row Reprieve

Author:Howard Wilkinson

“It's only our story that keeps us from knowing that we always have everything we need.”

Needs Stories Winning Knowing

Author:Byron Katie

“Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences.”

Way Results Knowing Highest Experience Arise Lowest

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“Patience and rest are key. Knowing how your body feels. You're the only person that knows how your body feels. The way of going about it is expressing it to your trainers and your coaches so you won't damage anything else.”

Knows Way Feels Persons Body Know How Knowing Keys Your Body Coaches Damage Trainers

Author:Donovan McNabb

“Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.”

Thinking Knowing Egotism Conceit

Author:Bobby Darin

“My family is like a sanctuary to me. I always turn to them for support and strength. I take comfort in knowing no matter which path I choose, my family stands behind me.”

Matter Turns Behinds Support Knowing Path Strength Comfort My Family Sanctuary

Author:Benjamin Bratt

“An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.”

Knows Men Knowing Mankind Old Man

Author:George Saville

“What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer? Virtually nothing, say psychologists, sociologists, and others who have studied that question for decade”

Knowing Caring Decades Believer Generous Helpful Psychologist Likelihood Sociologists

Author:Alfie Kohn

“Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.”

Art Knowing Art Is Application Something Better

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“All knowing that goes beyond the immediate experience of the moment is a matter of faith.”

Matter Moments Faith Knowing

Book:A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation

Source: A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation

“Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.”

World Ideas Moments Hands Together Form Next Knowing Balls Dancing Dance Leaving Knowing Each Other

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it.”

Dream Walks Knowing Musician California Sunset Sunshine Boulevard Sunset Boulevard

Author:Noel Gallagher

“You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.”

Knows Problem Easy Knowing Patriotic

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not to ask for any reward save that of knowing that we do thy will.”

Giving Suffering Fighting Asks Lord Teach Knowing Cost Labor Rewards Wounds Toil Heed Counting The Cost

Author:Ignatius of Loyola

“The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.”

Knows Science Knowledge Knowing Our Time Bent Knowing Things

Book:Celtic Literature

Source: Celtic Literature

“If having endured much, we at last asserted our 'right to know' and if, knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we must fill our world with poisonous chemicals, we should look around and see what other course is open to us.”

Ifs Knows World Should Looks Lasts Courses Nature Accepting Knowing Environment Risk Environmental Our World Chemicals Frightening Poisonous

Author:Rachel Carson