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In daily life we never understand each other, neither complete clairvoyance nor complete confessiona...

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The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom I am one who is fond of olden times and intense i...

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Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand

The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop o...

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Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Even more remote from his way of thinking, even more impossible than any other thought, would have b...

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I took her dress over to the closet and hung it up. It was funny. It made me feel sort of sad when I...

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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.

Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic ha...

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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becomin...

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The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly b...

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You don't know me, dude," he says, not smiling this time. Gonzo examines his cards, prepping for his...

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The power of knowing, in that first two seconds, is not a gift given magically to a fortunate few. I...

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Malcolm GladwellBlink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

If, years later, I do use the slit detector to observe which way the electron went, it will mean tha...

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Marcus du SautoyThe Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both...

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And he said that wasn’t brave of him, doing that, just standing there and being stung,’ said Coralin...

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I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to lo...

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and then you stopped. And looked at me. And I knew then exactly what was going to happen. You kissed...

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Believing is for Santa Claus, right? It's for Tooth Fairies. It's for your boyfriend when he says he...

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Be not another, if you can be yourself.

nothing would have meaning, because the knowing was itself the meaning; beyond that there was nothin...

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Paul BowlesThe Spider's House

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of sufferin...

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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

He grinned again. We'd only been seeing each other for a few weeks now, but this easy give-and-take ...

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Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expec...

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There wasn't in the beginning. It wasn't until your kind discovered what was happening that any resi...

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Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

We are only chance visitants to this jungle of blind mutations. The natural world existed when we di...

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Thomas LigottiThe Conspiracy Against the Human Race

She is dead now, so I can say that she laughed like us, played like us and her adult life turned out...

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You don’t have to speak at all—I know what you’d say…- Laura

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn'...

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Among the many things that made the Professor an excellent teacher was the fact that he wasn't afrai...

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Yōko OgawaThe Housekeeper and the Professor

It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concr...

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

When you know the knower within, you don't need to know further. When you know the meditator within,...

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One could never know anything except through desire, real desire, which was not the same thing as gr...

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A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another pe...

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When we see love as the will to nurture one's own or another's spiritual growth, revealed through ac...

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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at ...

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If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we...

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Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

But at that moment she had known, with a certainty she would never feel about anything else in her l...

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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

sometimes it's hard to knowwhat todo.

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense