not knowing Quotes

“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.”

“One thing is certain, the language was ineffaceably stamped upon my brain, though for a long time no one knew it, least of all myself.”

“I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.”

“The money’s gone I don’t know where, and this is come from I don’t know where.”

“Men who didn’t know how to get on and off a horse would not be much use around a cow outfit.”

“I myself had no idea who I was. I loved my mother yet looked nothing like her. Neither did I look like the role models in my life—my stepfather, my godparents, other relatives—all of whom were black. And they looked nothing like the other heroes I saw, the guys in the movies, white men like Steve McQueen and Paul Newman who beat the bad guys and in the end got the pretty girl—who, incidentally, was always white.”

″ ‘I never let the truth break me before, and I’m not about to start now.’ As awful as it was, as difficult to swallow as it might be, knowing was always better than not knowing.”

“Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for.”

“Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he’s devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It’s hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.”

“No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.”

“We were new and beautiful, we loved each other more than brothers, that’s for sure. What spoiled it always was that none of us knew why we were in Albania, none of us had an easy conscience about this rebuilding of the Roman Empire.”

“It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?”

“But as time goes on they begin to realize that even if the child could be released, it would not get much good of its freedom: a little vague pleasure of warmth and food, no doubt, but little more. It is too degraded and imbecile to know any real joy.”

“It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything. And so your mama does not know everything. Neither do I. We know only what we need to know.”

“It’s not knowing that drives you mad.”

“What is a hat?”

“He’s a man of few words, and he doesn’t know what either of them means,” people said, but not when he was within hearing.”

“It seems Natalie is another one who don’t know nothing. You can be anything you want, Grace, if you put your mind to it.”

“I don’t know who I am. I don’t know what I do. I don’t remember anything at all.”

“When we don’t know someone, or can’t communicate with them, or don’t have the time to understand them properly, we believe we can make sense of them through their behavior and demeanor.”

“The peddler looked at the monkeys. The monkeys looked at the peddler. He didn’t know what to do.”

“But I need to know more. I need to know what happened to my cousin. Maybe only for the sake of knowing- but maybe because I need to hear that it wasn’t my fault.”

“I am not one person; I am many people; I do not altogether know who I am.”

“Charlotte did not like being called standoffish much. But it was so difficult when she was only here every other day. Often she did not know what had happened, what was going on, and she was afraid of showing it, of saying things that might make everyone suspicious.”

“It means the right to have our own opinions. Human problems aren’t like mathematics, Nat. Every problem doesn’t have just one answer; sometimes you get several answers—and you don’t know which is the right one.”

“They were all very determined, and none of them knew what about.”

“I don’t know where we’ll go tonight. Tomorrow we’ll find Cob’s Circus.”

“John said he didn’t want to have to go for walks every day with a girl of twelve who thought she knew everything, and Susan said she didn’t want to have to go for walks with a boy of ten who didn’t know anything at all.”

“I feel like the world is divided into two types of people: people who know loss and people who don’t.”

“If knowledge is power, knowing what we don’t know is wisdom.”

″‘And what you going to do, Richard? What you want to be?’ And his face clouded. ‘I don’t know. I got to find out. Looks like I can’t get my mind straight nohow.‘”

“I know how I, Hercule Poirot, would act in anything, but I do not know how you would act, well though I know you.”

“It’s not that I don’t know what to do, it’s that I don’t do what I know!”

“The thing is, you don’t get to know.”

“I don’t forgive him. I wouldn’t know where to start.”

“My problem is, I just don’t know what I’m doing. I don’t know how to love.”