Unfamiliar Quotes
189 Unfamiliar quotes by 173 unique authors
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We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does not tally with…
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.
— Derek Bailey
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There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it…
— George Santayana
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Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.
— Bill Courtney
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Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to…
— Peter D. Mitchell
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Many of us spend our entire lives in the same bubble - we surround ourselves with people who share our opinions, speak the way we…
— Adam Braun
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It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear…
— Nelson Goodman
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One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but…
— Hermann Ebbinghaus
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Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a…
— Martin Buber
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Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out…
— Harold Brodkey
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Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history and delight us…
— Rodney Brooks
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All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular…
— June Jordan
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Too often technology is perceived as the problem rather than the solution; as something to be avoided rather than embraced. This is about as logical…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man’s…
— Richard E. Byrd
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There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable.
— Thomas Schelling
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The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of…
— Unknown Author
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I am trying to check my habits of seeing, to counter them for the sake of greater freshness. I am trying to be unfamiliar with…
— John Cage
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Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation…
— Amanda Ripley
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Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.
— Franz Kafka
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Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with Occam’s razor, which…
— David G. McAfee
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Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.
— Rebecca Solnit
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We shot that in Morocco, and got out of the country at the beginning of July - and two months later came the attack on…
— Eric Bana
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We shook hands. For a moment our eyes met - which I found surprisingly destabilizing. Then we pulled back and there was a mement of…
— Stefan Kieszling
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A muddy little stream, a village grown unfamiliar with time and trees. I turn around and retrace my way up Main Street and park and…
— Wallace Stegner
Who Wrote These Unfamiliar Quotes
173 authors contributed a total of 189 Unfamiliar Quotes, led by these top contributors: