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Not Knowing Quotes

[...] not knowing what he was doing because he did not know where his feet were or where his head was, or whose feet or whose head, and feeling that he could no longer resist the glacial rumbling of his kidneys and the air of his intestines, and fear, and the bewildered anxiety to flee and at the same time stay forever in that exasperated silence and that fearful solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
George Carlin quote: "Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what..."
Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did. George Carlin
Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not change, it remains for ever, following its own laws which do not concern us, or which, at any rate, you will never find out. Migrant birds, cranes for example, fly and fly, and whatever thoughts, high or low, enter their heads, they will still fly and not know why or where. They fly and will continue to fly, whatever philosophers come to life among them; they may philosophize as much as... Anton Chekhov
Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land. Walt Whitman
Toni Morrison quote: "Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder."
Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder. Toni Morrison
B. F. Skinner quote: "not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.'..."
...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake. B. F. Skinner
Charles Dickens quote: "Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself,..."
Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again. Charles Dickens
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you..."
Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto Laurell K. Hamilton
Ovid quote: "Not knowing what he sees, he adores the sight; That false face..."
Not knowing what he sees, he adores the sight; That false face fools and fuels his delight Ovid
Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Emily Dickinson quote: "Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door."
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door. Emily Dickinson
Sophocles quote: "Not knowing anything is the sweetest life."
Not knowing anything is the sweetest life. Sophocles
Even those who have an air of being wise judge of others only, and do not know themselves. It cannot be in reason to know others and not to know oneself. Therefore one who knows himself may be said to be a man who has knowledge. Though our looks be unpleasing, we do not know it. We do not know that our skill is poor. We do not know that our station is lowly. We do not know that we grow old in years. We do not know that sickness attacks us. We do not know that death is near. We do not know... Yoshida Kenko
For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no one know whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Is not this ignorance of a disgraceful sort, the ignorance which is the conceit that a man knows that he does not know? And in this respect only I believe myself to differ from men in general, and may perhaps claim to be wiser than they are: that whereas I... Socrates
In his own life, then, a man is not to expect happiness, only to profit by it gladly when it shall arise; he is on duty here; he knows not how or why, and does not need to know; he knows not for what hire, and must not ask. Somehow or other, though he does not know what goodness is, he must try to be good; somehow or other, though he cannot tell what will do it, he must try to give happiness to others. Robert Louis Stevenson

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