#knowing

Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom.” --The Tao Te Ching ↗

— The Tao Te Ching

#intelligence

I have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry him, so that there won't ever be a time when I shan't know him. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#love #marriage #life

In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#begun #criminal #criminal penalties #first #gave

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#decisions #expert #ignore #judgements #knowing

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted. ↗

— David Brin

#bringing #called #child #debt #full

I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them. ↗

— Morgan Brittany

#eye #hollywood #i #i can #knowing

I have to figure out why I worked at a job I hated for years. I have to find out why I can’t see what everyone else sees in me. I don’t feel beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I never saw beautiful. For this to happen to someone like me, it’s devastating, Jonas. I don’t want you to think it’s vanity, it isn’t. I can’t see me and I need to be able to do that. I need to find out what I’m like and what I want. I have to be comfortable in my own skin before I can be in a relationship the way you want. ↗

— Christine Feehan

#love-yourself #relationships #self-esteem #beauty

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#angry #black #could #fire #i

I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#better #i #i love #knowing #love

I've grown up knowing that you put as much of your private life out there as you feel comfortable with. ↗

— Lily Collins

#feel #grown #i #knowing #life