Known Quotes
5402 Known quotes by 3459 unique authors
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Remember, until you become a buddha you have wasted your life. Buddhahood is your flowering, your fragrance. A tree is fulfilled when it blooms, and…
— Rajneesh
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What exists is a godly existence, a divine existence. God not as a person but as a presence certainly exists. But to understand that presence,…
— Rajneesh
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Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, 'deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against…
— Pope John Paul II
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That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example, for continental drift when it…
— Carl Sagan
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A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down…
— James Thomas Fields
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Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance... you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be…
— Michael Dorris
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Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery…
— Arthur Lynch
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To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when…
— Gertrude Ederle
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The modern geography of the brain has a deliciously antiquated feel to it - rather like a medieval map with the known world encircled by…
— Unknown Author
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The human brain is the last, and greatest, scientific frontier. It is truly an internal cosmos that lies contained within our skulls. The more than…
— Unknown Author
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With its hundred billion nerve cells, with their hundred trillion interconnections, the human brain is the most complex phenomenon in the known universe - always,…
— Steven Rose
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I sense that, without sensitivity to physical pain and pleasure, man would not have known self-interest, and consequently know just or unjust acts. Thus, physical…
— Jonathan Balcombe
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Until we have a natural, that is, a conscientious world, it cannot be known by experience what natural law will do for the gratification of…
— Joseph Cook
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From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today.
— Unknown Author
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I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing…
— William Joseph Burns
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I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline
— Vince Lombardi
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One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Some pitchers want to be known as the fastest throwers that ever lived. Some want to win 30 games in one season. Some want to…
— Tom Seaver
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He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been…
— Anna Sewell
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Do not do that which you would not have known.
— Benjamin Franklin
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I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses ... I have been versed in the reasonings of…
— Euripides
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It's amazing what happens when you put your interests out into the universe and make it known what you want.
— Lana Del Rey
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All things that ever were, that are, or that will be, having; their record upon the astral light, or tablet of the unseen universe, the…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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A man's word and his intestinal fortitude are two of the most honorable virtues known to mankind.
— Jim Nantz
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We will be able to depart this life with the quiet peace-giving notion, that we were permitted to contribute to the happiness of many who…
— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
Who Wrote These Known Quotes
3,459 authors contributed a total of 5,402 Known Quotes, led by these top contributors: