982 Quotes About Knowing

An educated person is she or he who knows where or how to acquire knowledge.

Blessed are those with cracks in their broken heart because that is how the light gets in.

For a long while, I pretended not to know that even though I had only one life, I was spending it inside a lonely marriage. When the knowing threatened to rise, I’d shove it back down. There was no point admitting I knew what I knew, because I would never do what the knowing would require me to do.

Knowing that something needs to change is not half the battle. It is a necessary precursor. Knowing how to change something is the battle, and acting on it the war.

You don't know me, dude," he says, not smiling this time. Gonzo examines his cards, prepping for his next move. "People always think that they know other people, but they don't. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won't eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don't know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel ****ed up for no reason at all.

Tough love and brutal truth from strangers are far more valuable than Band-Aids and half-truths from invested friends, who don’t want to see you suffer any more than you have.

Never mistake the uncomfortable feeling of insecurity and the fear of the unknown with the Holy Ghost’s promptings. Sometimes those feelings are simply Satan keeping you stuck where you are because he knows you will have a half-life there. He knows that you will spend half of your life disconnected, discontented and convincing your mind of what its heart will never accept. He knows when you have settled, gave up and didn’t try. Inaction is his greatest weapon, while regret is his second.

He tugged at his hair more, and then added, "He knew Burt Reynolds and what's-her-name that he married. Debra, what's that name?""Loni Anderson, Daddy," Debra said. She turned to me. "Harry knew them really well. He knew everything about them. He told me that Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson would get divorced way before anyone else knew.

I am really fucking good at knowing when things are dogs.