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Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing but live and… — Maria Montessori
Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of… — Humphry Davy
We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he is attached to nothing, is… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
There is no proof. There are no authorities whatever. No president, Academy, Court of Law, Congress or Senate on this earth has the knowledge or… — Wilhelm Reich
We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown and strange. We… — Wilhelm Reich
The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices,… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten. — Anita Brookner
Sometimes I really regret that I did not live in those times when there was still so much that was new; to be sure enough… — Heinrich Hertz
This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis, but it satisfies the conditions of a legitimate hypothesis, by postulating the operation of… — William Robertson Smith
I had come to the conclusion a long time ago that there was no escape from the labyrinth of contradictions in which we live except… — P D Ouspensky
One can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known. — Eliphas Levi
The work comes into the world at an undetermined hour, from a still unknown, but it comes inevitably. — Giacomo Puccini
Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown… — Eduardo Galeano
We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world. — Lillian Russell
To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to surrendor the movements… — R. Scott Bakker
In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The… — Bruce Catton
Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the… — Bruce Catton
Printing links the present with forever. It carries personal identity into realms unknown. — Neil Postman
I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your… — Gotye
Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like a gas? Armies… — T.E. Lawrence

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