knowing (n.)
- acute
- aimed
- arch
- awake
- aware
- bright
- conscious
- cosmopolitan
- cosmopolite
- cunning
- cute
- deep
- designing
- expert
- feline
- gnostic
- hep
- intellectual
- mature
- mondaine
- old
- percipient
- politic
- private
- quick
- rational
- ready
- ripe
- sage
- sane
- secret
- sharp
- slick
- sly
- smart
- smooth
- sophisticate
- understanding
- veteran
- voluntary
- wary
- wise
knowing (adj.)
- acute
- advised
- aimed
- alive
- all-knowing
- apperceptive
- apprehensive
- arch
- artful
- astute
- awake
- aware
- blase
- brainy
- bright
- brilliant
- broad-minded
- cagey
- calculated
- calculating
- canny
- clever
- cognizant
- comprehending
- conceptive
- conceptual
- conscious
- considered
- conspiratorial
- conversant
- cosmopolitan
- crafty
- cunning
- cute
- deceitful
- deep
- deep-laid
- deliberate
- designed
- designing
- devious
- diplomatic
- discerning
- discursive
- disenchanted
- disillusioned
- eloquent
- envisioned
- experienced
- expert
- expressive
- feline
- foxy
- gnostic
- guileful
- hep
- ideational
- ingenious
- insidious
- insightful
- intellectual
- intelligent
- intended
- intentional
- inventive
- knowledgeable
- learned
- mature
- matured
- meaningful
- meant
- meditated
- mindful
- noetic
- observant
- old
- omniscient
- pawky
- perceptive
- percipient
- perspicacious
- planned
- politic
- practiced
- prehensile
- private
- profound
- projected
- purposeful
- purposive
- qualified
- quick
- quick-witted
- rational
- ready
- reasonable
- resourceful
- ripe
- ripened
- sagacious
- sage
- sane
- sapient
- scheming
- seasoned
- secret
- sensible
- sentient
- serpentine
- sharp
- shifty
- shrewd
- significant
- slick
- slippery
- sly
- smart
- smooth
- snaky
- sneaky
- sophic
- sophistical
- sophisticated
- stealthy
- strategic
- strong-minded
- studied
- subtle
- supple
- tactical
- teleological
- tricksy
- tricky
- tried
- understanding
- veteran
- vigilant
- voluntary
- vulpine
- wary
- watchful
- well-informed
- willful
- wily
- wise
- witting
- worldly
- worldly-wise
What constitutes a state?
. . . . . . .
Men who their duties know,
But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain.
. . . . . . .
And sovereign law, that state's collected will,
O'er thrones and globes elate,
Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?
