“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.” IfsKnowsWorldShouldLooksLastsCoursesNatureAcceptingKnowingEnvironmentRiskEnvironmentalOur WorldChemicalsFrighteningPoisonous Author:Rachel Carson
“I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing at random straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness without knowing the bearing of any one assertion, of any one opinion. Yet may I not in this be free from sin?” ThinkingWritingHumansMayLightYoungCoursesSinAnimalOpinionDarknessKnowingMidstParticlesAssertionHuman Animal Book:The Complete Works of John Keats Source: The Complete Works of John Keats
“It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of qualities in the sex. Her beauty is her capital--her worth in the market matrimonial depends upon it. With her the Virtues are less reverenced when unaccompanied by the Graces. The sex understand this very well; and hence they seek mainly to make captive the eye, knowing the mind and heart will follow as a matter of course.” MenMindWellsHeartMatterEyeCoursesSexWomenQualityKnowingVirtueGraceDependsChiefsMisfortunesHeart And MindCaptivesHer BeautyArbiter Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“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.” WantBelieveKindDifferentHardFeelingsCoursesI BelieveKnowingSpecialSourceExesCiviliansPolicemen Author:Terry Pratchett
“[On Paris:] It exists, constant, eternal, surrounding us who live in it, and it is in us. We love it or hate it, but we cannot escape it. It is a circle of associations in which man exists, being himself a circle of associations. Having entered it and come out of it we are not what we were before knowing it: it devoured us, we devoured it, and the problem is not did we or didn't we want it. We consumed each other. It courses in our blood.” MenWantProblemHateCoursesKnowingBloodEternalConstantCirclesParisAssociationConsumed Author:Nina Berberova
“I realize, of course, that I wasn't born knowing how to read. I just can't imagine a time when I didn't know how.” KnowsCoursesRealizingBornKnow HowKnowingImagine Author:Katherine Paterson
“I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.” KindStillsHardWould BeRunningCoursesKnowingRightsGayOfficeDecidedAgendasGay RightsBeing GayDishonorable Author:Barney Frank
“It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry them at all would be on trial. Until you had definitely experienced all the human situations with them, you would have no means of knowing how, in any given situation, they would behave. They might conform about evening-dress, and throw plates between courses; they might be charming to your friends, and ask the waiter to sit down and finish dinner with you. Or they might in all things, little and big, be irreproachable. The point is that you would never know.” KnowsWayHumansMeanLittlesBigsMightWould BeCoursesAsksGivenSituationMarriageKnowingStrangeSafeAll ThingsDown AndDressesDinnerTrialsEveningBehaveRebellionPlatesCharmingConformWaiter Author:Katharine Fullerton Gerould
“It's an incredible education [for the movie J. Edgar Hoover] . It was like I did a college course on J. Edgar Hoover but not knowing and understanding the history and reading the books, but understanding what motivated this man was the most fascinating part of the research.” MenBookCoursesReadingUnderstandingKnowingCollegeResearchIncrediblesFascinatingMotivatedNot KnowingHooverJ Edgar HooverKnowing And UnderstandingCollege Courses Author:Dustin Lance Black
“Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion. Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want. There is no security in freedom, at least not in the sense that we normally think of security. This is, of course, why it is so free: there's nothing there to grab hold of.” ThinkingWantHumansStatesSpiritualCoursesCausesHuman BeingsKnowingSecurityAbsolutesSafetyDistanceMiserySeekingConfusionFuelInsecurityNot Knowing Author:Adyashanti
“Students judge how well they might do in a chemistry course from knowing how peers, who performed comparably to them in physics, fared in chemistry” WellsMightCoursesKnowingStudentsJudgingPhysicsChemistryPeersSelf Efficacy Book:Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory
“Stanford may be the best university in the world, but you can get all the way through here without knowing where your food came from, without being able to say where we came from, without being able to give a coherent description of why the climate is changing and why we should be concerned about it. So I started teaching a course in human evolution and the environment that's open to all Stanford students, no prerequisites.” WorldWayGivingShouldHumansMayAbleCoursesKnowingEnvironmentTeachingStudentsEvolutionConcernedClimateUniversityBeing The BestDescriptionPrerequisitesHuman EvolutionStanfordWhere We Came Author:Paul R. Ehrlich
“The idea that the universe itself is physically structured around hierarchy was sort of an integration of earlier science and theology that was made by people like Thomas Aquinas, that was assumed doctrinally in that tradition. The Reformation rejected that model of reality and created a highly individualistic metaphysics in the sense that it located everything normative that can be said about reality in human perception, there being, of course, no other avenue of knowing. There is Scripture, there is conscience, there is perception itself.” PeopleHumansMadeSaidIdeasRealityUniverseCoursesKnowingPerceptionModelsConscienceTraditionScriptureTheologyRejectedMetaphysicsIntegrationHierarchyAvenuesReformationIndividualistic Author:Marilynne Robinson
“One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation... I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave me.” WritingSelfHandsCoursesDarkKnowingMastersOne DayMadnessNobleCardsNot KnowingWhipsDeckChainedDeck Of Cards Author:Truman Capote
“We're also talking a lot in the room about planting seeds that can grow over the course of the season, knowing that people might be watching them in bulk. We'd like to bury some Easter eggs and let people find them, later on.” PeopleMightCoursesGrowsRoomsTalkingKnowingSeasonsSeedsEggsEasterEaster EggPlanting Seeds Author:Jenji Kohan
“All spiritual growth comes from reading and reflection. By reading we learn what we did not know; by reflection we retain what we have learned. The conscientious reader will be more concerned to carry out what he has read than merely to acquire knowledge of it. In reading we aim at knowing, but we must put into practice what we have learned in our course of study.” KnowsSpiritualCoursesReadingGrowthPracticeKnowingStudyReaderReflectionConcernedAimAcquireSpiritual Growth Author:Isidore of Seville
“Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.” FactsCoursesUnderstandingKnowingProgressEssentialsAvailableAbsenceProductiveRelevant Author:Patricia Churchland
“I've rarely done anything that's overtly self-destructive without consciously knowing what I'm doing. And then of course, the astute journalist jumps forward and says, "Why are you being calculated?" Calculated seems to assume a sinister intent. My intent is always for artistic effect.” SelfDoneSeemsCoursesKnowingEffectsAssumingArtisticJournalistDestructiveSinisterSelf DestructiveAstute Author:Billy Corgan