#knowing

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#knowing #problem #right

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#be real #because #cannot #devastating #evolutionary

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. ↗

— David Starr Jordan

#doing #knowing #next #virtue

I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#dangers #duty #evils #frightful #haunted

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#knowing #life #living #truth #way

You only live once and you don't know it because of the everyday activities, but if you walk around knowing you only have one time on this planet, you'll make a whole lot more of it. ↗

— Jordan Knight

#around #because #everyday #know #knowing

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#boxes #fists #food #good #good food

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#both #certain #certainty #dissipate #dogmatism

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#belief #cambridge #course #everything #gradually

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. ↗

— Dora Russell

#children #having #having children #how #knowing