Knowing - Quotes
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
There is no pain like the pain of knowing you love someone but cannot live with them.
We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.
It`s hard enough fighting a war, but it`s worse knowing no matter how hard you try, you can`t save everyone.
Life is not all about planning and shaping, but about not knowing, and being okay with that. It’s about learning to take the moment that comes and make the best of it, without any idea of what’s going to happen next.
Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
In a small town or an apartment building with paper-thin walls, what I know about you is roughly the same as what you know about me. That's a basis for a social contract, in which we'll deliberately ignore some of what we know. The new privacyless world does away with that contract. I can know a lot about you without your knowing I know.
One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn`t like you. Especially when you don`t know what you`ve done to deserve it.
We live in a society where people are uncomfortable with not knowing. Children aren`t taught to say "I don`t know," and honesty in this form is rarely modeled for them. They too often see adults avoiding questions and fabricating answers, out of either embarrassment or fear, and this comes at a price. When children are embarrassed by or afraid of the feeling of not knowing, they are preoccupied with escaping their discomfort, rather than being motivated to learn. This robs them of the joy of curiosity. Let`s celebrate the feelings of awe and wonder in our children, as the foundation for all learning. Let`s teach children to say "I don`t know" and help them understand the power behind it. Let`s talk to them about how it feels to not know something. And, finally, let`s be honest with children about the limits of our own knowledge.