Knowingness Quotes

Knowingness is sexy. The opposite of sexy is naivete. ~ Fran Lebowitz

The curve of imagination, the curve of brilliance and the curve of sanity are identical curves or at least similar curves ... The more imagination a person has, why, the more intelligence, the more knowingness he has and the saner he's going to be. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

When you reduce your knowingness you know you cannot help. If you cannot help, nothing can help you. ~ Meir Ezra

The idea tells you everything. Lots of times I get ideas, I fall in love with them. Those ones you fall in love with are really special ideas. And, in some ways, I always say, when something's abstract, the abstractions are hard to put into words unless you're a poet. These ideas you somehow know. And cinema is a language that can say abstractions. I love stories, but I love stories that hold abstractions--that can hold abstractions. And cinema can say these difficult-to-say-in-words things. A lot of times, I don't know the meaning of the idea, and it drives me crazy. I think we should know the meaning of the idea. I think about them, and I tell this story about my first feature Eraserhead. I did not know what these things meant to me--really meant. And on that particular film, I started reading the Bible. And I'm reading the Bible, going along, and suddenly--there was a sentence. And I said, forget it! That's it. That's this thing. And so, I should know the meaning for me, but when things get abstract, it does me no good to say what it is. All viewers on the surface are all different. And we see something, and that's another place where intuition kicks in: an inner-knowingness. And so, you see a thing, you think about it, and you feel it, and you go and you sort of know something inside. And you can rely on that. Another thing I say is, if you go--after a film, withholding abstractions--to a coffee place--having coffee with your friends, someone will say something, and immed ~ David Lynch

You cannot be uncertain, because you know. ~ Meir Ezra

There is a knowingness that is as much a part of us as flesh and blood and bones. It's intuition, the deepest natural knowing ... Intuition is the voice within forever pressing us to stretch ourselves, to take risks, to keep loving and giving birth to a new self, regardless of circumstances. ~ Susan L. Taylor

Great knowingness comes from the inspection of small things. ~ Meir Ezra

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs. ~ David Lynch

Intuition is knowingness, and this field of unbounded knowing, of knowingness, is within every human being. You start tapping into that and it becomes an ocean of solutions. ~ David Lynch

There is giving, and there is knowingness. Some have generosity and compassion but no true knowledge. Some have knowledge but no self-sacrifice. When both are present, that person is blessed and prosperous. Such a being is truly incomparable. ~ Rumi

Affirmation: I am a thinker, I am knowingness, and I am a doer. ~ Katina Marshell Cotton-Sliwa

There is another word for this extremist noticing - this sense of first sight unencumbered by knowingness, by the already-been-theres and seen-thats of the adult mind - and that word, of course, is wonder. ~ Michael Pollan

His diaries had begun to assume something of the knowingness of incipient middle age; at times, indeed, he was in danger of becoming priggish and opinionated. As with many later European voyagers, travel in this part of the world, far from broadening the mind, seemed instead to lead to a blanket distrust of anyone of a different creed, colour or class. ~ William Dalrymple

His knowingness made him cold. ~ Lesley Howarth

Knowingness: I am like a newborn baby every day I wake up with a new slate to create. ~ Katina Marshell Cotton-Sliwa

Nirvana is entire body experience of complete knowingness that our lives are enriched with abundance in the present moment and that it will continue to be going forward. ~ Matthew Donnelly

The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child. I had forgotten the beauty and the magic and the knowingness of it and me. ~ Alexander Shulgin

He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence. ~ Michael Lewis

Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm. ~ Richard Rorty

The internet has spawned people for whom knowingness is more important than knowledge. It equips you with the illusion of offering knowledge instantly - and quite easily - so you can read a few articles on a few subjects and feel well informed but not actually know any of those subjects in any depth. ~ Pankaj Mishra

The only way for you to expand is to create something out of nothing and act without prior cause, or without reason at all – simply since you know. ~ Meir Ezra

Anything you take responsibility for, you will know. ~ Meir Ezra

Knowingness: My love for myself makes me invincible. ~ Katina Marshell Cotton-Sliwa

Why do you think? Because you try not to know. ~ Meir Ezra

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book. In adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance. Other things are felt to be more important: technique, style, literary knowingness ... The present-day would-be George Eliots take up their stories as if with a pair of tongs. They're embarrassed by them. If they could write novels without stories in them, they would. Sometimes they do. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them. We all need stories, but children are more frank about it. ~ Philip Pullman

Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

The moment you have a reason for what you "know", you already don't know, your "know" contains a lie. ~ Meir Ezra

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I think sometimes writers can get themselves into trouble trying to exert a totally controlled and super-knowing tone. This kind of knowingness is not the most promising tone to be sustained throughout a novel, to have a young woman who understands everybody and is always reading a room perfectly. ~ Rachel Kushner

I urge you all, fervently I urge you, to state unto the universe, unto the multiverse: I AM, I AM, I AM! I am life. I am God. I AM. As you state the knowingness within your breast, you raise your frequency. The vibration of I AM will begin to pulsate within you. ~ St. Germain