A Quote by Rick Riordan

Suspecting and knowing are not the same. — © Rick Riordan
Suspecting and knowing are not the same.

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Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it.
I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing they weren't the same thing.
Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student.
Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing - not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything. If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you. Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
Knowing what to do and not doing it is the same as not knowing what to do.
Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing.
Being a twin, and knowing if my twin was gone or lost - that's a part of me. There's no way I could be the same person knowing my brother had passed away.
Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.
But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.
Isn't there something wonderful about being surprised by what you weren't suspecting?
Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
I believe I accepted the first hit of crack because I am an addict, and that's what addicts do. There was nothing extraordinary going on in my life at the time - nothing beyond the normal pressures and ups and downs that all people face. I did not believe I would be hooked. I think that is probably true of most addicts and alcoholics. I haven't met anyone yet who said he or she took their first hit or drink knowing or even suspecting they would drink alcoholically or become addicted.
Not knowing what's happening, from script to script, as an actor and as a character, lends itself to the same tension and anxiety of not knowing what's happening.
You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.
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