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"I didn't work hard for success. I worked hard because that's what is in me. I showed up in this world somehow knowing that you have to work hard. You can't just have a thought. You have to follow the thought through."
"The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit."
"The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it."
"O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do."
"Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy."
"Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind."
"Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind."
"Maybe when you meet the people you are supposed to meet you know it, without knowing it."
"To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question."
"God is best known in not knowing him."
"Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to speak out to many thousands of people."
"Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on."
"Your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism."
"Enough to know no knowing."
"Ignorance is mere privation by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want of attraction: and, without knowing why, we always rejoice when we learn, and grieve when we forget."
"Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact."
"...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done."
"One of the important things about being a small-town reporter is knowing what not to put in the paper."
"There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done."
"Never feel dumb. Not knowing who or what is no sin. Ignorance is simply the measure of what you haven't got to yet. I find writers and works every day that I haven't got to, haven't even heard of."
