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Knowing Quotes (page 583)

You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Fortelling?" "No..."To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question. Ursula K. Le Guin
You know the story in the bible? The one with the king and the two women fighting over the baby? Sure King Solomon. That's right, king solomon he said, cut the kid in half... but it was only a test. Just to see who would give up their share to protect it... Well, I'm not going to cut you in half anymore. He was telling me that he loved me the most, that his surrender proved it. Stephenie Meyer
Walker Percy quote: "Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of..."
Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North. Walker Percy
The snail pushes through a greennight, for the grass is heavywith water and meets overthe bright path he makes, where rain has darkened the earth's dark. Hemoves in a wood of desire, pale antlers barely stirringas he hunts. I cannot tellwhat power is at work, drenched therewith purpose, knowing nothing. What is a snail's fury? All. I think is that if later. I parted the blades abovethe tunnel and saw the thintrail of broken white acrosslitter, I would never haveimagined the slow passionto... Thom Gunn
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "He who knows the reader, does nothing for the reader."
He who knows the reader, does nothing for the reader. Friedrich Nietzsche
Stephen King quote: "Well, I guess that in the computer magazines God is more often..."
Well, I guess that in the computer magazines God is more often spelled Gates, but you know what I mean. Stephen King
Albert Einstein quote: "There are two important things for full success in life:1...."
There are two important things for full success in life:1. Dont tell everything you know. Albert Einstein
I was left alone there in the company of orchids, roses and violets, which, like people who are kept waiting in a room beside you but do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more impressive... Marcel Proust
I had to learn to think, feel and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life-preservers around their necks, and more often than not it is the life-preserver which sinks them. Henry Miller
Alice Hoffman quote: "He must be an idiot to feel this way, but there's nothing he..."
He must be an idiot to feel this way, but there's nothing he can do. He doesn't even know if he can manage to speak. Alice Hoffman
In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn;... William Shakespeare
Cornelia Funke quote: "What’s so unusual about that, princess?” he asked quietly. “Do..."
What’s so unusual about that, princess?” he asked quietly. “Do you know how your story ends? Cornelia Funke
I'm youth, I'm joy!" Peter sang out. "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."This, of course, was nonsense; but it was proof to the unhappy Hook that Peter did not know at all who or what he was. This Hook though to be the best of good manners. J. M. Barrie
Frantz Fanon quote: "What matters is not to know the world but to change it."
What matters is not to know the world but to change it. Frantz Fanon
The real cocktail party conversation would probably go something like this:"Actually, I have a degree in geography."Geography? Wow, I'm terrible with maps. I bet YOU know all your state capitals, though!"(Geographer's smile freezes, left eye starts to twitch uncontrollably.) Ken Jennings

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