Unknown Quotes
1920 quotes by 1232 authors
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I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was unknown to their…
— Ayn Rand
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This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for…
— Walt Whitman
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This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of…
— Edward Abbey
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To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good…
— Edward Abbey
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The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings
— Lincoln Steffens
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This longing for knowledge makes the real artist brave. He never adheres to the first image that appears to him, because he knows that this…
— Michael Chekhov
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Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own…
— Max Horkheimer
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A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a…
— Max Horkheimer
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Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness…
— Marquis de Sade
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I don't really trust ideas, especially good ones. Rather I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch…
— Robert Rauschenberg
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The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To…
— Roger Zelazny
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The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world…
— Richard Baxter
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How can we live without the unknown before us?
— Rene Char
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My work in those years was essentially of a propagandist nature. I was too young and unknown to play a part in the leading circles…
— Nahum Goldmann
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It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in despite of what…
— J M Coetzee
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The creative process is also the most terrifying part because you don't know exactly what's going to happen or where it is going to lead.…
— Stephen Covey
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Success is an act of exploration. That means the first thing you have to find is the unknown. Learning is searching; anything else is just…
— Dale Dauten
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Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero.
— Erwin W. Lutzer
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Dreams are symbolic in order that they cannot be understood; in order that the wish, which is the source of the dream, may remain unknown.
— Carl Jung
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Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader.…
— Newell Dwight Hillis
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