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The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.

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Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

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They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

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Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.

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Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

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Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.

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But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

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Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.

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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.

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Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.

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The instruction of children should aim gradually to combine knowing and doing. Among all sciences mathematics seems to be the only one of a kind to satisfy this aim most completely.

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Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

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And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

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Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble.

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Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen. I might make a specific choice for myself and then in the next episode the writers might write something that contradicts it.

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Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

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I think musicians are perfect at knowing how to get the best out of other musicians. I can really relate to that communion.

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The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]

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Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.

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I am comfortable knowing that I put my heart and soul into the presidency.

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