#knowing

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#believing #cynic #gone #knowing #nothing

Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom.” --The Tao Te Ching ↗

— The Tao Te Ching

#intelligence

I have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry him, so that there won't ever be a time when I shan't know him. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#love #marriage #life

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

#life #vonnegut #family

As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#approach #bad #bad thing #every #everyone

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#always #announcement #desires #discover #eager

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#entirety #guilty #his #knowing #library

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#being #constantly #cups #filled #how

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted. ↗

— David Brin

#bringing #called #child #debt #full

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#between #book #curves #difference #feeling