In a world full of uncertainties, the power of knowing holds a special place in our journey toward growth and understanding. Whether it’s self-awareness, insight into others, or clarity about life’s purpose, knowing inspires confidence and fuels motivation. Here, we’ve gathered 32 of the most inspiring quotes about knowing to uplift your spirit and encourage deeper reflection. Let these words guide you toward greater wisdom and clarity in your everyday life.
1. “Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure.” - Lemony Snicket
2. “Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand” - Hayley Williams
3. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” - Leonardo da Vinci
4. “What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning...” - Fyodor Dostoevsky
5. “So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.” - Wm. Paul Young
6. “You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn’t question knowing.” - Stephen King
7. “There’s always someone who knows something.” - Stephen King
8. “And that is to say, of course, that you can "read" a culture without its literature, without the bother of gathering and holding its ideas, considering their genesis and evolution, and weighing them in the balance with each other.” - Richard Mitchell
9. “Knowing that I make somebody's day better is all that matters at the end of the day.” - Raven Symone
10. “Man can't say he knows nothing when saying it.” - Toba Beta
11. “We said we would meet again but we made no arrangements. Not out of any bad feeling between us, but because I felt it had all been said, or not said but understood, and she probably did too. To know she was there was enough, and for her to know I was around was probably too. Sometimes that's all people ever really need. Just to know.” - Cecelia Ahern
12. “We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.” - Jude Morgan
13. “Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.” - Francois Lelord
14. “If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.” - Junot Diaz
15. “For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.” - Carson McCullers
16. “It is hard, said Mme Landau, when I told her about those railway lessons, in the end it is hard to know what it is that someone dies of. Yes, it is very hard, said Mme Landau, one really doesn't know.” - W.G. Sebald
17. “Only ignorance excuses stupidity” - Nalini Singh
18. “You don't know me, dude," he says, not smiling this time. Gonzo examines his cards, prepping for his next move. "People always think that they know other people, but they don't. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won't eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don't know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel ****ed up for no reason at all.” - Libba Bray
19. “How to recognize what is real? To know the layers and depths of oneself, to know how to open, to know how to fill a capacious hold-all, to know one’s own quirks and nervous twitches, cravings and transparencies, and, above all the force, literally the force, of events, connections, the wild calm in every thing. ” - Shawna Lemay
20. “Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows.” - James Salter
21. “The Resurrected/Glorified, God-man Jesus and the angelic beings obviously have knowledge with which to think/reason/articulate/communicate. In my opinion, it seems to me there is 'another way' of knowing something. Yet, they have no physical/organic brain?"~R. Alan Woods [2012]” - R. Alan Woods
22. “Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice,and death as the other.What you put in-between the slices is up to you.Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org” - Allan Rufus
23. “Life is like a game of chess.To win you have to make a move.Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHTand knowledge, and by learning the lessons that areacculated along the way.We become each and every piece within the game called life!” - Allan Rufus
24. “But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.” - John Lanchester
25. “Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can’t. We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.” - David Almond
26. “The only way for you to know that you can really make a change is by knowing the future.” - Toba Beta
27. “Questioning ourselves and our country is healthy and essential.” - Bryant McGill
28. “I wouldn't want to live that life. I choose the pain. I chose the pain.” - Suzanne Palmieri
29. “There wasn't in the beginning. It wasn't until your kind discovered what was happening that any resistance started. That seems to be the key—knowing what’s going to happen.” - Stephenie Meyer
30. “To know is always better, no matter what the answer might be.” - Max Brooks
31. “Rather than trying to master nature we should start with the basics of trying to understand nature, cooperate with nature.” - Bryant McGill
32. “Much of education today focuses on obedience skills rather than critical thinking skills.” - Bryant McGill
