“Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.” IfsThinkingKnowsFactsPassionSituationKnow HowKnowingFailingJudgingDisciplinePrejudiceKnow YourselfAdjustment Author:Bernard Baruch
“Desire , to know why, and how, CURIOSITY; such as is in no living creature but Man ; so that Man is distinguished, not only by his Reason; but also by this singular Passion from other Animals ; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of Sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a Lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of Knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal Pleasure.” KnowsMenMindReasonCareDesirePassionCausesPleasureAnimalKnowingGenerationsCreaturesPerseveranceCuriosityDelightLustAppetiteDistinguishedLiving CreaturesVehemence Book:Leviathan Source: Leviathan
“I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .” WorldNeedsMindHeartHas BeensStillsShowsBodyTurnsPassionKnownKnowingFoolColdKingsLongingNew WorldStubbornSweetnessAcheExileBeggarRisenTreasonWild Passion Author:R. S. Thomas
“We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.” PeopleKnowsSelfPlayPassionResultsKnowingAwarenessPropertyHumankindSelf KnowledgePonderingKnowing Something Author:Benjamin Disraeli
“Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.” IfsNeedsFirstsDreamMotivationalPassionNextDifferencesChanceStepsKnowingImpossibleAchieveElementsAchievementFindingsFirst StepsDreams Come TrueNext StepsTrue YouImpossible Dream Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
“Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but theyare without our fears; they are subject like us to death, but without knowing it; even most of them are more attentive than we to self-preservation, and do not make so bad a use of their passions.” SelfUsePassionKnowingSubjectsAdvantageHumankindPreservationDeprivedBrutesSelf Preservation Author:Baron de Montesquieu
“Exultation that does not flow from education, affections that do not flow from knowing, savoring that does not flow from seeing, feeling that does not flow from thinking - are hollow and rootless - noisy gongs and clanging cymbals. And God is not glorified by artificial and empty passions. True delight is rooted in true doctrine. God-centered exultation is rooted in God-centered education.” ThinkingDoeFeelingsPassionKnowingSeeingFlowEmptyAffectionDelightDoctrineArtificialRootedHollowNoisySavoringGongsCymbals Author:John Piper
“The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existance of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.” WellsSoulSelfPassionKnowingIdentityEternalAll ThingsRaisedCalmPerceiveCausation Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We all [on Aladdin] have a passion to perform and a lot of us trained to do this and there's a certain gratification from knowing that you did your best work and knowing that you are at the level that you are at.” CertainPassionLevelsKnowingGratificationBest Work Author:Adam Jacobs