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Not Knowing Quotes (page 16)

Terry Prachett quote: "it is well know that a vital ingredient of success is not..."
...it is well know that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. Terry Prachett
These black times go as they come and we do not know how they come or why they go. But we know that God controls them, as he controls the whole vast cobweb of the mystery of things. Elizabeth Goudge
Antonio Porchia quote: "I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have..."
I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received. Antonio Porchia
Death - Death can be faced, dealt with, adjusted to, outlived. It's the not knowing that destroys interminably... This being suspended in suspense; waiting - weightless, How does one face the faceless, adjust to nothing? Waiting implies something to wait for. Is there? There is One. One who knows... I rest my soul on that. Ruth Graham
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. Gilda Radner
Is all niceness then or is all buggery? How can a man be forty-five years old and still not know whether all is niceness or buggery? How does one know for sure? Walker Percy
Erich Segal quote: "The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that..."
The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done. Erich Segal
The rhetorician need not know the truth about things; he has only to discover some way of persuading the ignorant that he has more knowledge than those who know. Plato
A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence. Idries Shah
The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would rather not know it. The artist is present to correct the delusions to which we are all prey in our attempts to avoid this knowledge." - James Baldwin, "The Creative Process James Baldwin
When you are sixteen you do not know what your parents know, or much of what they understand, and less of what's in their hearts. This can save you from becoming an adult too early, save your life from becoming only theirs lived over again--which is a loss. But to shield yourself--as I didn't do--seems to be an even greater error, since what's lost is the truth of your parents' life and what you should think about it, and beyond that, how you should estimate the world you are about to live in. Richard Ford
There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.(Interview with Paris Review, 1958) Ernest Hemingway
For now, oh my God, it is to You alone that I can talk, because nobody else will understand. I cannot bring any other man on this earth into the cloud where I dwell in Your light, that is, Your darkness, where I am lost and abashed. I cannot explain to any other man the anguish which is Your joy nor the loss which is the Possession of You, nor the distance from all things which is the arrival in You, nor the death which is the birth in You because I do not know anything about it myself and... Thomas Merton
Mortimer Adler quote: "The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express..."
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks. Mortimer Adler
E. M. Forster quote: "He did not know, but presently he would know. Great is..."
He did not know, but presently he would know. Great is information, and she shall prevail. E. M. Forster

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