Known Quotes
5402 quotes by 3606 authors
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I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
— Dean Acheson
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that…
— Isaac Asimov
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I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look…
— Margaret Atwood
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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God is best known in not knowing him.
— Saint Augustine
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For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
— Roger Bacon
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It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who…
— Douglas Adams
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any…
— Tallulah Bankhead
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I can tell you that I'd rather be kissed by my dogs than by some people I've known.
— Bob Barker
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
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Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
— Bernard Baruch
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Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of…
— Bernard Baruch
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and…
— Saint Basil
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I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least…
— Emmanuelle Beart
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Paul Ryan is a nationally tested leader that is widely known and respected.
— Bob Beauprez
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't…
— Beck
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I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want…
— Adele
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Among the various vernaculars that are spoken in different parts of India, there is one that stands out strongly from the rest, as that which…
— Annie Besant
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct…
— Buffalo Bill
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