Intimate Knowledge Quotes

Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.

There's nothing more interesting than the details of someone's life.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.

I learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss and could teach no one anything except that I have lived with something in common among men.

But Jude,' she would say, 'you knew me. All those days and years, Jude, you knew me. My ways and my hands and how my stomach folded and how we tried to get Mickey to nurse and how about that time when the landlord said...but you said...and I cried, Jude. You knew me and had listened to the things I said in the night, and heard me in the bathroom and laughed at my raggedy girdle and I laughed too because I knew you too, Jude. So how could you leave me when you knew me?

On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane.

And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.

You've got to know someone pretty well to hate them.

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.

Carnal knowledge is as forgettable as the other kinds.

Paul and I know each other on a lot of different levels that very few people know about.

The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.

I am graven on the palms of His hands. I am never out of His mind. All my knowledge of Him depends on His sustained initiative in knowing me. I know Him, because He first knew me, and continues to know me. He knows me as a friend, One who loves me; and there is no moment when His eye is off me, or His attention distracted for me, and no moment, therefore, when His care falters.

And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.

I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.

Geoff Leonard knows more about me than I know myself.

The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task.

The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

I'm not sure I can write about America for the same reason I'm not sure I can write about adults - I have no critical distance on either place.