Lauryn Hill
Singer, Songwriter
"Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out."
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Not Knowing
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Neil Gaiman
Author
"Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes."
Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"Know what you do not know."
Sophocles
Playwright, Philosopher
"Not knowing anything is the sweetest life."
Alan Watts
Philosopher, Writer
"Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it."
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"Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so."
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"What's the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you're alive?"
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"God is best known in not knowing him."
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"As an actress, there's nothing worse than not knowing your cues."
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"I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie"
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"Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it."
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"I'm always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way."
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"So rather than someone coming to my stu- dio and saying, like, "Thank you for your time. I'll see you later," and me not knowing why they don't like my work, I understand now why they don't like it."
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