Not Knowing Quotes

“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.”
― Shannon Alder

“When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“True saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand you because of their own ego, fear and lack of spirituality. What's sadder is when they are Christian.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“If we claim that wisdom is grounded on knowing that one does not know, we must recognize that truth is a collection of human-made interpretations. . ( "Everybody his story")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pretentious intellectualism so often fails to comprehend the concept of God: it is only accepting of what it can explain while in the process finding higher sources offensive. What we may confidently assert is that faith is the opening that allows God, this unpredictable, unseen power, to travel in and out of the mind without all the pains of confusion.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Not knowing is better than pretending to know.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“All knowledge meets an end at the question '...Why?”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“I don't know." That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign understanding where none existed.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space

“With respect to the acceptance of dissociative disorders, as with most issues in life, it is counterproductive to spend time trying to convince people of things they don't want to know.”
― Warwick Middleton

“I don’t know what tomorrow is going to bring, what a year from now is going to be like. Hell, we may end up killing each other over something stupid next week. It’s a possibility. But all I do know is what I feel for you isn’t going anywhere.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Onyx

“Sincerely believe that you might not know the best possible path and recognize that your ability to deal well with “not knowing” is more important than whatever it is you do know. Most people make bad decisions because they are so certain that they’re right that they don’t allow themselves to see the better alternatives that exist. Radically open-minded people know that coming up with the right questions and asking other smart people what they think is as important as having all the answers. They understand that you can’t make a great decision without swimming for a while in a state of “not knowing.” That is because what exists within the area of “not knowing” is so much greater and more exciting than anything any one of us knows.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“It’s possible to both know and not know something.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

“People don't know that they don't know. Remember that before you hold it against them.”
― Akiroq Brost

“She would risk it although she didn’t know the outcome because it was something worth being brave for.”
― Neus Figueras, Lorac

“The writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.”
― Nelson Algren

“You don't know God because you know too much 'about' Him. A baby knows his mother even though he knows nothing 'about' her.”
― Shunya

“You don’t know where you’re going unless you know where you’re going.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“3.2 Practice radical open-mindedness. a. Sincerely believe that you might not know the best possible path and recognize that your ability to deal well with “not knowing” is more important than whatever it is you do know. b. Recognize that decision making is a two-step process: First take in all the relevant information, then decide. c. Don’t worry about looking good; worry about achieving your goal. d. Realize that you can’t put out without taking in. e. Recognize that to gain the perspective that comes from seeing things through another’s eyes, you must suspend judgment for a time—only by empathizing can you properly evaluate another point of view. 3.2 Practice radical open-mindedness. a. Sincerely believe that you might not know the best possible path and recognize that your ability to deal well with “not knowing” is more important than whatever it is you do know. b. Recognize that decision making is a two-step process: First take in all the relevant information, then decide. c. Don’t worry about looking good; worry about achieving your goal. d. Realize that you can’t put out without taking in. e. Recognize that to gain the perspective that comes from seeing things through another’s eyes, you must suspend judgment for a time—only by empathizing can you properly evaluate another point of view.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“... what's so great about lying is the not knowing.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Det var svårt att avgöra om han njöt av att hon var besvärad eller om han faktiskt tyckte synd om henne.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Dragomir knew he'd never given much thought to love. He'd thought about his lifemate often. He'd been obsessed with finding her for centuries, but he'd never considered what he would feel when he found her. Not love. Not this overwhelming, terrifying feeling that shook him to his core. He hadn't known love could be felt through one's entire body. That it could manifest itself physically.”
― Christine Feehan, Dark Legacy

“Until I saw what happened to Mongo, I thought that getting canceled was the worst thing that could happen. Wrong. Being dead and not knowing it is much, much worse.”
― Rodman Philbrick, The Last Book in the Universe

“Ignorance is the perception of the nonexistent, and the nonperception of the Existent.”
― Yukteswar Giri, The Holy Science

“I don't really know where I fit in anymore,' I admitted...

'I've been alive almost five and a half centuries, and I'm not sure of that, either,' Azriel said.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“More than illusion, harmful is not knowing that you are living in an illusion. This world is like a reality show, which, contrary to its name, is never real, but preplanned. Likewise is life.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Smiling Brahma

“The things we don’t yet know are as important as those we do.”
― Laurie E. Smith

“The poverty is not knowing what lays outside of your door.”
― Anthony T. Hincks