Unknown Quotes
1920 Unknown quotes by 1232 unique authors
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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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It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of…
— Anais Nin
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SETH said: When the intellect is used properly, it thinks of a goal and automatically sets the body in motion toward it, and automatically arouses…
— Jane Roberts
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The unknown is the governing principle of war.
— Ferdinand Foch
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We all have an unknown ability, which will probably remain unknown forever. And yet that ability can become our ally. Since it’s impossible to measure…
— Paulo Coelho
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Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as…
— Muhammad Yunus
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It's really the sense of isolation, more than anything, realizing how tiny you are down in this big vast black unknown and unexplored place,
— James Cameron
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I am in an endless journey towards an infinite route, only to find a real world of humanity. This thirst is eternal. I will keep…
— G.M.B. Akash
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The dictionary describes a selfish person as one who is 'concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking pleasure or well-being without regard for others.' May…
— H. Burke Peterson
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His head on my knee can heal my human hurts. His presence by my side is protection against my fears of dark and unknown things.…
— Gene Hill
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Common integration is only the memory of differentiation... The different artifices by which integration is effected, are changes, not from the known to the unknown,…
— Augustus De Morgan
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