Best Unwittingly Quotes
60 Unwittingly quotes by 56 unique authors
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Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope,…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to…
— William Hazlitt
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In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
— Jean Rostand
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The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.
— Eugene V. Debs
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He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may…
— Walter Benjamin
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The Jews are a Distinct Nationality regardless of where they live, their station in life or their shades of belief, and his clarion call to…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly, because your hands are so busy clasping what you think you have always known.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
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The fact that scientists do not consciously practice a formal methodology is very poor evidence that no such methodology exists. It could be said-has been…
— Peter Medawar
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Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "obvious" methodological…
— Paul Feyerabend
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I unwittingly became sort of this anorexia spokeswoman.
— Tracey Gold
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Preparation is not only about managing external risks, but about limiting the likelihood that you'll unwittingly add to them. When you're the author of your…
— Chris Hadfield
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Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
— Christopher Lasch
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I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
— Pete Townshend
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I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who…
— Pete Townshend
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Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch…
— Marisha Pessl
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I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system…
— Woodrow Wilson
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But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly,…
— Alan Bennett
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Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
— Epictetus
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For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that…
— John Dewey
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The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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Everybody has a ‘gripping stranger’ in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it’s the kid in cut-offs…
— Douglas Coupland
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I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel:…
— David Foster Wallace
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we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we feel…
— Brennan Manning
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