Not Knowing Quotes

Your happy destiny is unavoidable. You cannot be "saved." There is no hell except not knowing this.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.

I don't feel frightened by not knowing things.

Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.

There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.

I believe in intuition and inspiration...at times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason.

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

Check-ups are, in my experience, a grave mistake; all they do is allow the quack of your choice to tell you that you have some sort of complaint that you were far happier not knowing about.

What's the difference between being dead, and just not knowing you're alive?

In order to stretch ourselves we do need to experience the vulnerability of not knowing the outcome.

Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out.

The goal of preparation then is not knowing exactly where you'll go but being confident nonetheless that you'll get there.

I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.

As much as I feel sad, I think that not knowing is what really bothers me.

Surrender means cultivating a comfortable attitude toward not knowing, being nurtured by the mystery of moments that are dependably surprising, ever fresh.

Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder

A girl could be sitting on her computer, trying to get noticed by me, and not knowing she's the future Mrs. Justin Bieber.

Do you struggle with confusion? Not knowing which way to go? Here's why: We turn to means (help of creation, our own mind) before turning to God.

I'm excited about what the future holds. I'm not a fortune-teller; I have no idea how it will play out. People say, "What are you going to do?" I don't know. I kind of love that not knowing.

God is best known in not knowing him.

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.

Some of us pray demands. Some of us pray complaints. Some of us pray knowing, and some of us pray not knowing. But prayer is the attitude that you hold in your heart.

I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

The not knowing would not keep me from caring.

But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day.

The anxiety of not knowing what my next gig is keeps me hungry.

A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we're headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment.

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.

If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.

Inspiration pushes me out of my tight intellectual comfort zone and into humility, the wonderous state of not knowing. From this place of zero, limitless possibilities seem to arise.

The Cylons are such a frightening concept - not knowing who is real. No way.

I know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

For from the error of not knowing, or understanding, what sin is, there necessarily arises another error, that people cannot know or understand what grace is.

It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.

Men, for the most part, like to pursue women. We like not knowing if we can catch you. We feel rewarded when we do. Especially when the chase is a long one.

I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.

Never feel dumb. Not knowing who or what is no sin. Ignorance is simply the measure of what you haven't got to yet. I find writers and works every day that I haven't got to, haven't even heard of.

We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.

As an actress, there's nothing worse than not knowing your cues.

I'm always suspicious of people, especially being in a weird realm of people kind of knowing me... and not knowing what people's motives might be.