Untried Quotes
41 quotes by 34 authors
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The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as…
— Eric Hoffer
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There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most…
— Francis Bacon
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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.
— Francis Bacon
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Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making…
— Willa Cather
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We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach…
— George Eliot
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At the heart of the message of the Savior of the world is a single, glorious, wonderful, still largely untried concept. In its simplest terms…
— James E. Faust
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The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production by exploiting an invention or, more generally, an untried technological possibility for…
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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When we mourn those who die young – those who have been robbed of time – we weep for lost joys. We weep for opportunities…
— Josephine Hart
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Major Richard Bong was an example of the tragic and terrible price we must pay to maintain principles of human rights, of greater value than…
— Eddie Rickenbacker
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Nothing is unnatural - just untried.
— Rita Mae Brown
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FAITH untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it…
— Charles Spurgeon
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What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?
— Horace
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Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.
— Peter Thiel
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Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!
— Joseph Addison
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I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born…
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
— James Russell Lowell
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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
— Abraham Lincoln
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