Knowing Quotes

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.

Howard Cosell

Fashion is a tool … to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of.

Mary Quant

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Oprah Winfrey

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

Hannah Arendt

Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.

Benjamin Franklin

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight

William Safire

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.

Confucius

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

Andre Gide

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Howard Aiken

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used

Dr. Carl Sagan

Fascism is a European inquietude. It is a way of knowing everything -- history, the State, the achievement of the proletarianization of public life, a new way of knowing the phenomena of our epoch.

J. A. Primo De Rivera

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

Alfred Adler

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

Edward de Bono

The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.

John A. Simone, Sr.
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