"Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness."
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"Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors."
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"Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness."
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"Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do."
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"True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one."
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"Many times Christians state their love for the Lord and their willingness to die for Him. I will make no pretense of knowing the Lord's will in your life, but I do feel that in most cases the Lord is far more interested in our living for Him than He is in our dying for Him."
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"Wisdom consists in knowing what not to want as well as what to want."
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"It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists."
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"A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it."
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"I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going."
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"If human love hath power to penetrate the veil--and hath it not?--then there are yet living here a few who have the blessedness of knowing that an angel loves them."
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"... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance."
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"So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going."
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"But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality."
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"A good restaurant just makes me giddy. I can go all day with anticipation just knowing where I'm going to eat. Sometimes it's well planned, sometimes it's spontaneous. Either way works."
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"What motivates me is seeing people in the crowd and wondering what they're going home to and what they're dealing with, and knowing that for the time being we're their escape."
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"No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand."
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"The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with."
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"I find that I have painted my life, things happening in my life - without knowing. After painting the shell and shingle many times, I did a misty landscape of the mountain across the lake, and the mountain became the shape of the shingle - the mountain I saw out my window, the shingle on the table in my room. I did not notice that they were alike for a long time after they were painted."
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"It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres."
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