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Not Knowing Quotes (page 34)

Mark Twain quote: "Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not..."
Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday. Mark Twain
Paulo Coelho quote: "Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing..."
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering. Paulo Coelho
A Bird came down the Walk – He did not know I saw – He bit an Angleworm in halves And ate the fellow, raw, And then he drank a Dew From a convenient Grass – And then hopped sidewise to the Wall To let a Beetle pass – ... Emily Dickinson
He does not know what freedom is. Freedom is a word, less than a word, a noise, one of the multitude of noises I make when I open my mouth. J. M. Coetzee
George R. R. Martin quote: "Do you think I do not know that? Oberyn is with me every time..."
Do you think I do not know that? Oberyn is with me every time I close my eyes? Doran Martell George R. R. Martin
O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand. Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice? William Shakespeare
We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain. John Steinbeck
The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master’s whiplash. Franz Kafka
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things. Walt Whitman
Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him. J. R. R. Tolkien
Prophet,' he said, 'Your doctrines I do not know; therefore if I accepted them, I would do it out of fear like a coward and a base man. Are you anxious that your faith be professed by cowards and base people? Henryk Sienkiewicz
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "I do not know everything; still many things I understand."
I do not know everything; still many things I understand. Madeleine L'Engle
In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it. Abraham Lincoln
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable, open-mindedness;... Timothy Leary
Vernor Vinge quote: "Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and..."
Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it. Vernor Vinge

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