Unsuspected Quotes
32 quotes by 30 authors
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The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in a parallel manner,…
— William Stanley Jevons
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Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a…
— James Jeans
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Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to…
— Mark Twain
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When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing the darkness, etch…
— Volkmar Wentzel
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I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get…
— Ray Bradbury
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In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible…
— B.F. Skinner
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The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches…
— David Hilbert
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Once we recognize the fact that every individual is a treasury of hidden and unsuspected qualities, our lives become richer, our judgement better, and our…
— Charles H. Percy
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The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer…
— Myrtle Reed
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Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)
— Edmond Jabes
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Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author himself.
— Felix Dennis
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By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected…
— John Leo
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Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.
— Joseph Addison
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I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banished…
— Walt Whitman
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The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular…
— George Henry Lewes
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If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in…
— Louis Sullivan
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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to…
— Edgard Varese
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