Maya Angelou Quotes, Wise Quotes, Knowing Quotes

I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.

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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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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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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

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The door to God is the insecurity of not knowing anything. Bear the grace of that uncertainty and all wisdom will be yours.

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

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Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot.

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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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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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But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

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Not knowing what will happen makes life fun.

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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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The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

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

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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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We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.

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Rereading places you at the point where it has to go on, knowing it is as good as you can get it up to there. There is always juice somewhere.

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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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Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

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This is the case with thousands: they appear desirous of knowing the truth, but have not patience to wait in a proper way to receive an answer to their question.

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