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

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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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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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Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.

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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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Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.

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A good man does not worry about not being known by others, but rather is concerned about not knowing them.

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I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why - not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for heaven - and I ask what this message of Christ means.

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Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

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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

What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation - all of it! - was held together by invisible chemical bonds, and I found a strange, inexplicable comfort in knowing that somewhere, even though we couldn't see it in our own world, there was a real stability.

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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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I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.

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There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.

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Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

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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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A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

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There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

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A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Knowing Quotes , Thanks Quotes