Thinking is not knowing. [ Portuguese Proverb ]

Like the bird be thou,
That for a moment rests
Upon the topmost bough:
He feels the branch to bend
And yet as sweetly sings,
Knowing that he has wings. [ Victor Hugo ]

Knowing, or skilled, in writing. [ Motto ]

Look around the habitable world, how few
Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. [ Dryden ]

Oh world, as God has made it! All is beauty:
And knowing this, is love, and love is duty. [ Browning ]

The happiest life consists in knowing nothing. [ Soph ]

This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense;
For even the ears of such as have no skill,
Perceive a discord, and conceive offence;
And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill. [ Sir John Davies ]

The slender acacia would not shake
One long milk-bloom on the tree;
The white lake-blossom fell into the lake
As the pimpernel dozed on the lea;
But the rose was awake all night for your sake,
Knowing your promise to me;
The lilies and roses were all awake.
They sighed for the dawn and thee. [ Tennyson ]

No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself. [ Proverb ]

What constitutes a state?... Men who their duties know,
But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain. [ Sir William Jones ]

knowing how to live quietly at home, in their own rooms. [ Pascal ]

It is a secret worth knowing that lawyers rarely go to law. [ Mosea Crowell ]

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

It is not knowing much, but what is useful, that makes a wise, man. [ Proverb ]

The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge. [ Bible ]

Wouldst thou unlock the door to cold despair and knowing pensiveness? [ George Herbert ]

No power of good can be obtained by doing nothing and by knowing nothing. [ Johnson ]

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it. [ Cicero ]

True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing. [ Humphreys ]

Talent is a gift which God has imparted in secret, and which we reveal without knowing it. [ Montesquieu ]

Without the way there is no going; without the truth, no knowing; without the life, no living. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Man is man by virtue of willing, not by virtue of knowing and understanding; and as he is, so he sees. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Except in knowing what it has to do and how to do it, the soul cannot resolve the riddle of its destiny. [ Ed ]

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

We must endure our doom as easily as may be, knowing as we do, that the power of necessity is irresistible. [ Aeschylus ]

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things which differ, and the difference of things which are alike. [ Madame de Stael ]

Faith is letting down our nets into the untransparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall take. [ Faber ]

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. [ Beaconsfield ]

All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it. [ Bruyfere ]

Few things are more unpleasant than the transaction of business with men who are above knowing or caring what they have to do. [ Johnson ]

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them. [ Seneca ]

In order that a love-letter may be what it should be, one should begin it without knowing what he is going to say, and end it without knowing what he has said. [ Raison ]

Eloquence is relative. One can no more pronounce on the eloquence of any composition than the wholesomeness of a medicine, without knowing for whom it is intended. [ Whately ]

If human love hath power to penetrate the veil - and hath it not? - then there are yet living here a few who have the blessedness of knowing that an angel loves them. [ Hawthorne ]

Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory. [ Landor ]

When God will educate a man, he compels him to learn bitter lessons; He sends him to school to the necessities rather than to the graces, that by knowing all suffering he may know also the eternal consolations. [ Celia Burleigh ]

What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make. [ Whipple ]

The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon. But even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him. It is the lapidary that gives value to the diamond, which the peasant has dug up without knowing its worth. [ Abbe Raynal ]