Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Discovery Quotes, Knowing Quotes

It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.

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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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And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.

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

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One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.

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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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Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.

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I don't want to make promises, not knowing what the situation's going to be three or four years out.

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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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O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.

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The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we're getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.

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We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

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. . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable and manageable. But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable. There is, however, this consolation: She who lets go of the knife will find the Tao at her fingertips.

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Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.

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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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First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing.

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Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness.

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Wonder is not precisely knowing.

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Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

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Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life.

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