Jane Austen Quotes, Knowing Quotes

We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Knowing Quotes , Giving Quotes

What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.

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The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.

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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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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Men Quotes , Knowing Quotes

Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you will unburden the mind, and only then will it understand the essential which is ever there.

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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

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The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.

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Not knowing whether to wait or to forget is the worst kind of suffering.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Knowing Quotes , Waiting Quotes

The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense.

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The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Independent Quotes , Knowing Quotes

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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It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

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

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Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Knowing Quotes , Psychology Quotes

Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that's interesting.

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No one can desire the love of God without first knowing human love.

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Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.

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