I knew Lee Harvey Oswald, and I knew Jack Kennedy. The odds against that-one person knowing all four of those men-must be astounding.

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

My definition of freedom is knowing who you are, and then being it. No matter what anyone else is doing. And naked parties of course.

True tolerance is not a total lack of judgment. It's knowing what should be tolerated, and refusing to tolerate that which shouldn't.

Darwinism's atheism prevents science from knowing why things are as they are. Without God there is no answer to the why for anything.

We need to be skilled into knowing God and His Word, then act as excellent translators of these things to the people in our churches.

I don't need to try to push everyone out of the way and say, "This is how you do it. I actually like not knowing. I trust every lead.

Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.

Discipline is knowing what to do. Knowing when to do it. Doing it to the best of your abilities. Doing it that way every single time.

Spiritual healing is KNOWING that the body is perfect. Mental healing is effecting a perfect body by visualizing the body as perfect.

You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

Taylor Swift is pretty hip...She seems pretty honest. I think that’s hip. She’s promoting knowing yourself, and that’s the best idol.

Nietzsche's break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.

..while I was happy enough to pray to any god, knowing that they were simply different faces created by men, of one indivisible truth.

. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

But that's part of faith. Believing and knowing despite what other people say, and despite what the world might think of your beliefs.

Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.

Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.

I tried very hard. But I can't help it. The Fates are cruel. They sent you to me, my brave one, knowing that you would break my heart.

There's a reason why Federer and Nadal are so gracious when they lose. They sleep well at night knowing that they've given their best.

I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.

How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way

I hope you fall in love with someone nice and have a good marriage. I might end up dying without knowing what it's like to be in love.

Discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it. Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can.

I ached for the difference between Carlisle and me - that he could touch her so gently, without fear, knowing he would never harm her.

The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments

Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.

Never ask a woman why she's angry at you. She will either get angrier at you for not knowing, or she'll tell you. Both ways, you lose.

I want to avoid people, because there’s only one thing worse than being homeless, and that’s people who are not, knowing that you are.

Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.

I like the feeling of keeping people off-balance and having the audience not knowing where I'm coming from or keeping that mysterious.

I want to push myself to be brave and out of my comfort zone, but I guess I stay in my comfort zone knowing I have my family close by.

You can feel small, insignificant and insubstantial, but knowing the universe is in your tiny body should be enough to make you happy.

But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree

Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

Words of wisdom for every photographer: 'Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking'. So said Goethe.

Hip-hop has a feeling element, it's not just about knowing music. It's not like classical music or jazz where you can go on raw energy.

I always worry that knowing too much about a novel or a story early on in writing will close it down - it feels fatalistic in some way.

The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.

If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it.

You should not have a favourite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well.

It's really a lovely feeling to write knowing that failure is taken off the table because if it's bad you just never show it to anyone.

Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.

Sadhyojata means “creating every moment anew, knowing every moment new.’ We are used to a certain dimension, so this may go beyond you.

Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less.

Knowing a deep thing well, which is what science asks of its practitioners, is an empowerment that is very profound. It's a liberation.

For men, it's necessary to push aside that marvelous ego that tells you that you are all knowing and capable, and see that you are not.

Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.

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