Unfamiliar Quotes

189 Unfamiliar quotes by 173 unique authors

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
But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody. — Derek Bailey
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
Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self. — Bill Courtney
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable. — Thomas Schelling
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
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
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
Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle. — Franz Kafka
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
Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing. — Rebecca Solnit
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
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
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

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