32 Quotes On Knowing

In our journey through life, wisdom often emerges from the simplest yet most profound sources: quotes. These succinct snippets of insight have the power to inspire, enlighten, and provoke deep reflections. Whether they come from philosophers, writers, or everyday thinkers, quotes about knowing oneself and the world around us hold a special place in our hearts. Today, we bring you a curated collection of the top 32 quotes on knowing, each chosen for its ability to resonate and leave a mark on our consciousness. Prepare to delve into words that illuminate the path to greater understanding and self-awareness.

1. “I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.” - Neil Gaiman

2. “A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.” - Yevgeny Zamyatin

3. “Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure.” - Lemony Snicket

4. “Suspecting and knowing are not the same.” - Rick Riordan

5. “Sometimes..I didn't know what I sought until I've found it.” - Toba Beta

6. “If you believe you can, you might. If you know you can, you will.” - Steve Maraboli

7. “A sense of mission lostin ink'sjagged outcrops.I was trying to tell myselfwhat I must have knownbeforein a formI wouldn't recognize at first.” - Rae Armantrout

8. “There's more to getting to where you're going then just knowing there's a road.” - Joan Lowery Nixon

9. “The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.” - Erich Segal

10. “You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn’t question knowing.” - Stephen King

11. “The only picture of Tarrou he would always have would be the picture of a man who firmly gripped the steering-wheel of his car when driving, or else the picture of that stalwart body, now lying motionless. Knowing meant that: a living warmth, and a picture of death.” - Albert Camus

12. “We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.” - Jude Morgan

13. “I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about the secrets they've been told or haven't been told. They're talking about intimate things, family things, love things," that nice old lady said to me. "Mr. Hoenikker had all those things in his life, the way every living person has to, but they weren't the main things with him.” - Kurt Vonnegut

14. “... you sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own words. It was interesting the way people could know things and not know them at the same time. Denial, he said, was like a thick stone wall.” - Nell Freudenberger

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. “The primary purpose of reading the Bible is not to know the Bible but to know God.” - James Merritt

17. “Only ignorance excuses stupidity” - Nalini Singh

18. “Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.” - Suzanne Collins

19. “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” - Plato

20. “Awkward.That's exactly how it was when we walked over to our sister and stood on each side of her, looking at her and feeling things and not knowing what to do.” - Markus Zusak

21. “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

22. “Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows.” - James Salter

23. “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

24. “..Imam Ali [A]..'However knows himself (his soul or spirit) knows [or has known] his Lord” - DR MUHAMMAD ALI SHOMALI

25. “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

26. “Jesus Christ came not to condemn you but to save you, knowing your name, knowing all about you, knowing your weight right now, knowing your age, knowing what you do, knowing where you live, knowing what you ate for supper and what you will eat for breakfast, where you will sleep tonight, how much your clothing cost, who your parents were. He knows you individually as though there were not another person in the entire world. He died for you as certainly as if you had been the only lost one. He knows the worst about you and is the One who loves you the most. If you are out of the fold and away from God, put your name in the words of John 3:16 and say, “Lord, it is I. I’m the cause and reason why Thou didst on earth come to die.” That kind of positive, personal faith and a personal Redeemer is what saves you. If you will just rush in there, you do not have to know all the theology and all the right words. You can say, “I am the one He came to die for.” Write it down in your heart and say, “Jesus, this is me—Thee and me,” as though there were no others. Have that kind of personalized belief in a personal Lord and Savior.” - A.W. Tozer

27. “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

28. “The only way for you to know that you can really make a change is by knowing the future.” - Toba Beta

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. “Rather than trying to master nature we should start with the basics of trying to understand nature, cooperate with nature.” - Bryant McGill

31. “Much of education today focuses on obedience skills rather than critical thinking skills.” - Bryant McGill

32. “A piece of information can change a person. I'd hate to change the way I'm supposed to live the future.” - Samantha Young