Not Knowing Quotes

People don't want to be plagued by not knowing-they want answers.

It's exciting not knowing what I'm doing next, but it won't be long before I'm going to feel like I needed to be doing something, whatever it is.

Our minds have the need to know. When we dont know we make assumptions - they make us feel safer than not knowing. And we are pretty much always making assumptions.

I come from an improvisational background so I'm used to playing. I'm used to not knowing what exactly is going to come out.

I love not knowing. It keeps me guessing.

We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.

I like the not knowing of what the next job is.

Not knowing whether to wait or to forget is the worst kind of suffering.

When we were on breaks from recording and touring, I was kind of moping around, like not knowing what to do. It was hard to adjust back to normal life after being so busy.

Ive always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew.

Not knowing the thing that’s chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you

Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject.

You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.

I'm terrified to go in lakes because you can't see the bottom, and not knowing what's there watching you is really scary to me.

Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.

Maybe I'd just figured out there were some things you were better off not knowing

Would it help if I stood around uselessly not knowing what to say?

I really have branched out into areas where I'm totally uncertain, which is very exciting for me. I kind of like not knowing what I'm doing.

I wonder which is worse-the death, not knowing what comes after, or the wedding, when you think you know, but you're wrong.

I like not knowing too much about somebody I'm photographing, because the process also becomes an experience for me to learn about .

I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy.

If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something.

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.

Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave.

Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.

I don't know how I could sleep at night, not knowing I was surrounded by a thousand other sleeping, dreaming souls. - pg 120, Jem to Tessa & Will

To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.

The way I go about making a movie... even the ones that are interview-driven, I go into them not knowing what's going to happen, and feeling my way through.

I think men don't know what they want, so the idea of not knowing what they're getting makes it a little easier on them.

You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone else, and shuffle into another incarnation that won't be very different.

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You can live a perfectly happy life being utterly confused and not knowing.

Did I want a dog? No. Did I need a dog? Also no. We were six kids running for our lives, not knowing where our next meal was coming from. Could we afford to feed a dog? Wait for it—no.

I hate not knowing what to believe anymore. I hate not knowing what's real.

Fearlessness at twenty springs from not knowing challenges lie ahead. Fearlessness at fifty comes from having wrestled with life's challenges and learned from them.

In fact, not knowing is a necessary condition of writing for me. I don't know how else to reach something unexpected. I have to be as in the dark as my characters.

There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.

When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.

All knowledge meets an end at the question '...Why?

Because you're always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing.

When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.

To respect a mystery is to make way for the answer.

How little we know the ones we love. How little we know of anyone, in the end.

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

History has shown us time and time again that you don't have to know someone to love them with all your heart.

Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed.