Hardly Know Quotes
31 quotes by 29 authors
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We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the State into every…
— Joseph Sobran
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This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism.…
— Luis Federico Leloir
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It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as…
— Hector Berlioz
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'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is…
— Carl Sagan
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So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I…
— Ellen Bass
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Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where…
— Holmes Rolston III
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People are much like those stars up there. Some burn faintly for millions of years, barely visible to us on earth. They're there, but you'd…
— Sarah Jio
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Jaguar — For men who'd like hand-jobs from beautiful women they hardly know.
— Dudley Moore
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We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant,…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know which.
— Charles Francis Richter
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Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
— Sydney Smith
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Who ARE You?" This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least…
— Lewis Carroll
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Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that…
— George Eliot
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A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness…
— Henry Hazlitt
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Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it.
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your…
— Walt Whitman
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It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing…
— Jane Austen
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We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the…
— Richard Matheson
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You will hardly know who I am or what I mean
— Walt Whitman
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This business I'm in is different. It's special. The people around me feel like brothers and sisters. We hardly know each other, but we're that…
— Johnny Cash
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