Charles Dickens Quotes, Law Quotes, Knowing Quotes

Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

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Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up distancing themselves from that world, knowing the immense joy that childhood had brought to their lives.

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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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Wonder is not precisely knowing.

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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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The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

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No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.

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It's true that the best way of knowing yourself is to put yourself into different situations.

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We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.

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

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Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

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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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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.

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Women move through the world never knowing their power.

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I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Knowing Quotes , Sincerity Quotes

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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Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that the knowledge of God is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing God can we understand human nature.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Knowing Quotes , Understanding Quotes

When you drop the ego, you drop a whole world that you have created around it. For the first time you are able to see things as they are - not as you would like them to be. And when you are capable of knowing the facts of life, you become capable of knowing the truth. The facility of life is the first step towards truth. And ego is the most falsifying agent.

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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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Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

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