Unwittingly Quotes
60 quotes by 56 authors
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I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and sometimes find myself regurgitating almost…
— Roseanne Barr
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Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental…
— David Bowie
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When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into the room. The…
— Geraldine Brooks
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The simple fact is that the world is not paying for the services the forests provide. At the moment, they are worth more dead than…
— Prince Charles
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Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them ... They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly by doing…
— John W. Gardner
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A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away…
— Henry Wriston
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He unwittingly takes a false step and plunges into the abyss.
— Paulo Coelho
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I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country,
— Woodrow Wilson
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I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, which can only apply to felons, but rather to finding your brother again...I seek forgiveness…
— Marie Antoinette
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Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.
— Alice von Hildebrand
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The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly. It is…
— Henry Theodore Tuckerman
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In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are only uncovered later,…
— Kate Morton
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How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well,…
— Jonathan Ames
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Your self image is so powerful it unwittingly becomes your destiny.
— Oscar Micheaux
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In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners…
— David Mamet
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Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.
— Angela Carter
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The tragedy is that in the name of resisting the internal deterioration of faith and the corruption of the world around them, many Christians -…
— James Davison Hunter
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The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for…
— Timothy Leary
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One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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One Chief Astronaut used to make a point of phoning the front desk at the clinic where applicants are sent for medical testing, to find…
— Chris Hadfield
Who Wrote These Unwittingly Quotes
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