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Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

Quote by Jean Piaget about reality

Knowing the sin in this world's grandest depravity.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about world, sin, wisdom

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

Quote by Aeschylus about wisdom, things, man

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

Quote by Frank Herbert about lie, light, truth

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson about nation, life, people

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

Quote by William Faulkner about memory

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.

Quote by Confucius about philosophy, impossible, force, police, man

Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to wear a Chairman Mao button, or do a lot of these things with out knowing what's behind it, and what it really means.

Quote by Lester Bangs about smoke, things

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Quote by Richard Bach about fasting, thinking

Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last.

Quote by John Abizaid about being, change, affair, day

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Quote by Ansel Adams about art, good, good luck

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about habits, common sense, people

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Quote by Scott Adams about creativity, art, magic

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Quote by James Lane Allen about rightness, work

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about secret

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about being

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Quote by Aristotel about wisdom, danger, things, man, life

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Quote by Jane Austen about woman

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

Quote by Michael Chabon

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.

Quote by Catherine Deneuve about being