Unknown Quotes
1920 quotes by 1232 authors
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It is far more than the discovery of life without a self. The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence into a new dimension of knowing…
— Bernadette Roberts
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The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the emergence…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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There there is nothing like a wilderness journey for rekindling the fires of life. Simplicity is part of it. Cutting the cackle. Transportation reduced to…
— Colin Fletcher
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To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view.…
— Victor Hugo
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I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others.
— Confucius
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Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really grasped and yet…
— Claude Bernard
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When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of…
— T.D. Jakes
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Electric and magnetic forces. May they live for ever, and never be forgot, if only to remind us that the science of electromagnetics, in spite…
— Oliver Heaviside
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I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the unknown.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.
— Aberjhani
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Society is composed of men, and every man is a FREE agent. Since man is free, he can choose; since he can choose, he can…
— Frederic Bastiat
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According to Ayurvedic principles, by understanding oneself, by identifying one's own constitution, and by recognizing sources of doshic aggravation, one can not only follow the…
— Vasant Lad
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I'm drawn to very large texts that are mammothly popular in different parts of the world but are almost unknown here [the USA]. They're safe…
— Mary Zimmerman
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Remember, too, every day, and whenever you can, repeat to yourself, Lord, have mercy on all who appear before Thee today. For every hour and…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from the world and…
— Don DeLillo
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Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe, I venerate the young, unknown geniuses who die in their…
— Knut Hamsun
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For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of that desire made…
— Joseph Conrad
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When ... we realize the possibilities of deep sea life still unknown to us, every haul of the dredge should be welcomed by an expectant…
— William Beebe
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