Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Knowing Quotes, Important Quotes

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

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Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze. [Lat., Virtus repulse nescia sordidae, Intaminatis fulget honoribus; Nec sumit aut ponit secures Arbitrio popularis aurae.]

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Wherefor are you knowing it? If you stacked all of the Gorg in the galaxy on top of eachother, the Gorg would kill you.

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Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable.

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O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.

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There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.

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Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks.

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But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

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I'm a content person and I'm content knowing that I gave it my all when I was president.

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Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

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Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.

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Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change."

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Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.

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In for ever knowing, we are for ever blessed; but to know all were the curse of a fiend

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Knowing what's correct and not doing it, it's the worst cowardice.

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And isn't it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are.

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A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Knowing Quotes

Sometimes we take somebody who's been in the trenches and fought the good fight and been steady for granted. Sometimes we act as if never having done something and not knowing what you're doing is a virtue.

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The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense.

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We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

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