Knowing

Famous quotes containing the word knowing:

“Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)

“We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of us deny this reality and long for the safety and familiarity of sameness, inclusive ways of knowing and living offer us the only true way to emancipate ourselves from the divisions that limit our minds and imaginations.”
—bell hooks (b. 1955)