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“There are moments in life where the question of knowing whether one might think otherwise than one thinks and perceive otherwise than one sees is indispensable if one is to continue to observe or reflect... What is philosophy today... if it does not consist in, instead of legitimizing what we already know, undertaking to know how and how far it might be possible to think otherwise?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Doe Philosophy Moments Might Today Know How Knowing Perceive Indispensable Undertakings

Author:Michel Foucault

“What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.”

People Thinking Said Reality Water Differences Knowing Seeing Sea Masters Enlightenment Sight Miles Drowning Stormy Stormy Seas

Author:Anthony de Mello

“It is about getting a sense of integrity about issues. That was was my enlightenment over it and knowing that I had a safe place to go to handle anything in life.”

Knowing Issues Integrity Safe Enlightenment Handle Over It Places To Go Safe Places Anything In Life

Author:John Travolta

“This "knowing what to do"... is a matter of having the right purpose, the purpose appropriate to the situation in hand... The one who "knows what to do" is the one on whom you can rely to make the best shot at success, whenever success is possible.”

Knows Matter Hands Purpose Situation Knowing Shots Rely Appropriate Best Shot Knowing What To Do

Book:Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged

Source: Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged

“I had been virtually a Unitarian (as I still am) but without knowing it. The experience of being among Unitarians who did know what they were, and attached much importance to it, was entirely novel to me, but I soon fell into their ways and found it easy to go forward on their road, the more so because the other roads became closed to me.”

Knows Way Stills Found Easy Novel Knowing Importance Unitarian

Author:L. P. Jacks

“As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a syllogism is, so economists have long been mathematicians without being aware of the fact.”

Long Ideas Facts Knowing Prose Mathematician Economist

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn't lead to wisdom? And what's wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?”

Ifs Knowing Study Things To Do Right Thing

Author:Iain Banks

“Knowing English is important, but for us Venezuelans I think it would also be important to know Portuguese. For that reason, we should evaluate the possibility of it being taught in our schools.”

Thinking Knows Should Important Reason School Knowing Possibility Taught Evaluate Portuguese Venezuelans

Author:Hugo Chavez

“Outside the world of politics, one person in the world of the arts I would mention as an influence is Nick Cave, another person who has been around since the late 1970s. He has developed and changed remarkably, whilst remaining true to his vision. He has been a great help to me as well, without his knowing it.”

World Wells Persons Has Beens Art Helping Vision Knowing Influence Changed Late Caves

Author:Nick Cave

“I don't remember the first image of a werewolf I saw, but I suspect it was the hybrid type, up on two legs, with long limbs, hair, claw-like fingernails and lupine head. To me there's nothing scary about complete transformation from human into wolf. Wolves aren't scary. They're dangerous, yes, but so are geese, in the wrong mood. What's scary is seeing the human in the wolf but knowing it's beyond the reach of reason or emotional appeal. That's where the horror and dread kicks in.”

“The way to experience ultimate happiness is to let go of all worries and regrets, and to know that being happy is the most satisfying of life's feelings. Reflect back on all the progress in your life and allow the positive, creative and joyous thoughts to outshine and overwhelm any sorrow or grief that may linger in the recesses of your mind. Knowing that disease and disaster are natural parts of life is the key to overcoming adversity with a calm and happy spirit. Happiness is waiting there in front of you. Only you can decide whether or not you choose to experience it. Take this to heart.”

“The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which he is subjected, but without knowing it trains himself for new compulsions. ... Training in sports makes of the individual an efficient piece of apparatus which is henceforth unacquainted with anything but the harsh joys of exploiting his body and winning.”

Mean Play Body Joy Winning Individual Sports Knowing Pieces Discipline Training Train Various Efficient Harsh Relaxation Compulsion

Author:Jacques Ellul

“I recently went mad and spent 1,000 in one afternoon on bras and knickers. I love classy, lacy stuff that makes you feel dead sexy knowing you've got it on. I've never worn stockings and suspenders, though. But I could imagine they'd make you feel really sexy worn under something formal. I think I'll save that experience and wear them under my wedding dress.”

Thinking Feels Stuff Knowing Imagine Dresses Mad Sexy Afternoon Worn Formal Underwear Bras Stockings Wedding Dress Knickers Suspenders

Author:Jennifer Ellison

“Shall I make it clear, boys, for all to apprehend, Those that will not hear, boys, waiting for the end, Knowing it is near, boys, trying to pretend, Sitting in cold fear, boys, waiting for the end?”

Trying Ends Waiting Boys Knowing Clear Cold Sitting

Book:The Complete Poems

Source: The Complete Poems

“I sometimes wonder if what I create as a writer will leave any sort of dent. There's really no way of knowing, so I just have to keep going.”

Ifs Way Sometimes Wonder Knowing Keep Going

Author:Kevin Sampsell

“Sometimes to speak as a woman is to cry, and to speak from our emotional, intuitive knowing, as opposed to graphs and charts and vertical lines. And that's scary - that's scary to do. And the fallout from it can be brutal.”

Sometimes Speak Lines Knowing Cry Emotional Scary Brutal Intuitive Vertical Graphs Fallouts

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“I think part of being a good coach is knowing how to extract the best from different people.”

People Thinking Different Knowing Coaches Different Peoples Good Coaches

Author:Hope Powell

“Some of my best sources are ex-policemen, just to get a feeling of what it's like to be one. And it's quite different from being a civilian - except, of course, that I believe that policemen are just special sorts of civilians. Things like how hard it is to hold someone that doesn't want to be held. This is the kind of thing that is worth knowing.”

Want Believe Kind Different Hard Feelings Courses I Believe Knowing Special Source Exes Civilians Policemen

Author:Terry Pratchett

“One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper.”

Important Knowing Paper Towns Important Things Reporters Small Town

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I have the deepest regret about 9/11. Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the most difficult days I've ever had. I was in Lima, Peru, and had to fly back eight hours not knowing what happened in my own country, knowing thousands of my fellow citizens had died.”

Country Difficult Hours My Own Knowing Happened Regret Citizens Died Fellows Eight Not Knowing Peru Sept 11 Difficult Days

Author:Colin Powell

“We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. Nor should we represent motherhood as something so common and easy that everyone can go through it without harm or suffering and rear her children competently and well.”

Want Should Wells Children Reason Suffering Easy Common Knowing Harm Motherhood Not Knowing Having Children

Author:Dora Russell

“As far as vocal preparation goes, it's really an interesting thing for such a fragile instrument and using it properly is like walking a tightrope. I have learned not to do extensive warm-ups. It's really more of a cerebral mind-body connection Zen hippy thing, just knowing your body and figuring out if I do that then I will be able to speak tomorrow.”

“The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it.”

Lying Knowing Identity Who You Are True Happiness Making Peace Knowing Who You Are

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“Credo Mutwa, the most knowledgeable man i have ever had the honor of knowing.”

Men Knowing Honor Knowledgeable Credo

Author:David Icke

“Never gamble without knowing a back way out.”

Way Knowing Gamble Wot

Book:The Fires Of Heaven: Book 5 of the Wheel of Time

Source: The Fires Of Heaven: Book 5 of the Wheel of Time

“Women age early, and their mistake is not knowing where to hide all the time that lies behind them so that no one sees it. What are they to do, devour it like the umbilical cords of their children? Hell and damnation!”

Children Age Lying Women Behinds Mistake Hell Knowing Not Knowing Damnation Cords Umbilical Cord

Book:Lust

Source: Lust

“Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape spool I'll be fed”

Sleep Knowing Lays Bread Feds Tape Lenses Daily Bread

Author:Andy Partridge

“Experimental science is a craft and an art, and part of the art is knowing when to end a fruitless experiment. There is a danger of becoming obsessed with a fruitless experiment even if it goes nowhere.”

Ifs Art Two Ends Knowing Plans Danger Becoming Art Is Built Experiments Crafts Obsessed Experimental Science

Author:Martin Lewis Perl

“This may sound weird but I miss traveling. I miss the road, seeing different places and being with the dancers and having fun. That feeling of being on the stage, knowing it's your best -- I love that. I needed a break. I needed to be hungry again.”

May Different Feelings Fun Sound Break Knowing Seeing Stage Missing Needed Hungry Having Fun Dancer Different Place

Author:Britney Spears

“War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows the long night of pain and that peace is health.”

Children Long Doe War Pain Night Suffering Knowing Conditions Temporary Fever Scourge Long Nights

Book:The Fall of Hyperion

Source: The Fall of Hyperion

“The song is about knowing the end result of every situation you're in, and being able to play it out in your mind and see it before it happens. It's about addiction, really, about knowing how it's all going to end up. In that sense, you're watching a movie of yourself all the time - and then you want out of that movie.”

Want Mind Ends Play Happens Able Song Results Situation Knowing Addiction End Results

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“I realize this is blasphemy, but a few weeks ago I tried to watch a NASCAR race being run at Talladega. I lasted about five minutes before terminal boredom overtook me. It appeared to be nothing more than a high-speed freeway commute--a mob of luridly painted, identical lumps of metal loping at 180 mph around the banking, fender to fender, nose to tail. Knowing the scenario would surely devolve into a multicar demolition derby that would thrill the goobers in the grandstands, I turned off the set to later learn that this time it was Jimmie Johnson who triggered the eight-car melee.”

“The [Stanford Prison Experiment] was readily approved by the Human Subjects Research committee because it seemed like college kids playing cops and robbers, it was an experiment that anyone could quit at any time and minimal safeguards were in place. You must distinguish hind sight from fore sight, knowing what you know now after the study is quite different from what most people imagined might happen before the study began.”

“History--the product, not the raw material--is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been laid upon the label (its iconography, its target-group of customers) and upon the interesting problems of manufacturing bottle-glass. The contents, on the other hand, are tasted in a knowing, perfunctory way and then spat out again. Only amateurs swallow them.”

“In short, individual freedom of speech leads to a stronger society. But knowing that principle is not enough. You have to know how to put it to use on the Net.”

Knows Enough Use Individual Principles Know How Knowing Speech Stronger Freedom Of Speech Individual Freedom

Book:Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age

Source: Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age

“As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much to prevent our knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life.”

Knows Humans Knowing Subjects Human Life Touching Obscurity Brevity

Author:Protagoras

“A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice, and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences.”

Children Two Light Interest Accepting Knowing Adults Extraordinary Not Knowing Incidents Commonplace Improbable Midway

Book:The fifth head of Cerberus: three novellas

Source: The fifth head of Cerberus: three novellas

“The fulfilment that is being in love with God is not the product of our knowledge and choice. It is God's gift. Like all being in love, as distinct from particular acts of loving, it is a first principle. So far from resulting from our knowledge and choice, it dismantles and abolishes the horizon within which our knowing and choosing went on, and it sets up a new horizon within which the love of God transvalues our values and the eyes of that love transform our knowing.”

Firsts Eye Values Choices Principles Knowing Particular Products God Love Horizon Being In Love Abolish Fulfilment New Horizons

Book:A Second Collection

Source: A Second Collection

“As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the world verbally/analytically and visually/spatially. During the crucial early years, parents can help to shape a child's life in such a way that words do not completely mask other kinds of reality. My most urgent suggestions to parents are concerned with the use of words, or rather, not using words.”

World Way Years Kind Children Helping Use Reality Parent Goal Can Do Deals Knowing Shapes Concerned Our Children Alternatives Mask Crucial Suggestions Urgent Using Words

Author:Betty Edwards

“Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (where Paul Cézanne worked a lot, fh) or from Venice to Toledo (where El Greco painted a lot, fh). Expression is for one knowing its own pivot. Every expressor relates solely to himself - that is the concern of the individualist.”

Knowing Expression Concern Distance Painter Relate Paris Venice Traverse Toledo

Author:Marsden Hartley

“This is the sort of book that justifies fatwahs. If WWIII occurred right now, we could die happy knowing Baxter would never write again. If a dinosaur killing asteroid was headed for Earth and I knew Baxter had another book coming up, I would campaign for letting the rock hit, since it is obviously the work of a benovelent deity trying to save us from another Titan.”

Ifs Writing Trying Book Earth Dies Knowing Rocks Right Now Killing Campaigns Justify Deities Dinosaurs Asteroids Titans

Author:James Nicoll

“One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising.”

Differences Knowing Advantage Forty Realising

Book:Gustav Holst, letters to W. G. Whittaker

Source: Gustav Holst, letters to W. G. Whittaker

“Success is a an attitude and state of mind where I feel the exhilaration of knowing that I made a difference for many, did this doing what I love, and maing alot of money in the process so I get to experience many things in this extraordinary world. The most important part of success is a deep knowing that I made a difference for others.”

World Feels Mind Made Important States Process Differences Attitude Knowing Extraordinary State Of Mind Exhilaration

Author:Nancy Fox

“Look in, and know the mind is all that is; And knowing, feeling it is all, Then have ye all.”

Knows Mind Looks Feelings Knowing

Author:Robert B. Leighton

“Knowing that one may be subject to bias is one thing; being able to correct it is another.”

May Reason Able Knowing One Thing Subjects Bias

Book:Explaining Social Behavior

Source: Explaining Social Behavior

“What influenced my style was the feeling that I was a lousy artist... I was like the ugly duckling, not knowing what I was, style-wise, and thinking I was all on my own... I evolved into a style that couldn't be compared to anyone else.”

Thinking Feelings Artist My Own Knowing Wise Style Ugly Not Knowing Ducklings Ugly Duckling

Author:Jim Rowe

“You take that leap of faith. You have to be willing to follow, blindly, wherever it takes you. If you know where you're going beforehand, you're not going to end up with anything worth knowing.”

Ifs Knows Ends Faith Knowing Willing Leap Leap Of Faith

Author:Sam Messer

“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.”

Life Life Is Certain Next Goal Water Accepting Knowing Mystery Miracle Peaceful Certainty Faithful Relax Not Knowing Uncertain

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“When you approach spirituality as an adventure of being alive, you start as you would any adventure--with a sense of mystery and not-knowing. Instead of searching for answers that make you feel safe, you set out into the vastness of life and death, with a willingness to continually grow. You open up to the possibility that your ordinary life is an extraordinary adventure, and that your joys and sorrows have meaning. Spiritual practice becomes your rudder, offering direction and insight and discretion as you venture into the unknown.”

Source: The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

“If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.”

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