#knowing

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#insist #knowing #limited #men #mere

You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#because #big #epic #future #going

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all? ↗

— Jean Racine

#know #knowing #nothing #pass

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#first #habit #knowing #nature #neither

It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#dinner table #dish #family #favorite #i

The work is flowing from an inner knowing of how things really are. ↗

— Martin Puryear

#how #inner #knowing #really #things

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#gun #knowing #politics #pull #trigger

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results. ↗

— James Allen

#bring #efforts #inevitably #joyfully #knowing

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#characteristic #commonplace #hour #impose #itself

My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#based #been #behavior #come #conscience