We Know Them Quotes
33 quotes by 32 authors
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Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit…
— David Attenborough
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We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity…
— Henry David Thoreau
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By…
— Lucretius
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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the…
— Alexander Trocchi
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There's a lot of scientific data that I found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth. I believe…
— Paul Broun
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I don’t believe that the Earth’s but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That’s what…
— Paul Broun
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One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some…
— Stanislaw Ulam
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When biological technology becomes further advanced, human beings as we know them, will become a modified species. If we as human beings fail to include…
— Jacque Fresco
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One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. I love only nature,…
— Richard P. Feynman
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There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs, colon, and a…
— Herbert M. Shelton
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The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.
— Wilhelm Wundt
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We must do what we can to reduce, not increase, tensions. We must do what we can to present only the facts as we know…
— Percy Spender
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I doubt if Dickens did, especially his women-his pretty women-Mrs. Dombey, Florence, Dora, Agnes, Ruth Pinch, Kate Nickleby, little Emily-we know them all through Hablot…
— George du Maurier
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This is the moment when we have to decide: does a world exist outside ourselves and is that world worth fighting for? Another 200 species…
— Lierre Keith
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The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also…
— Art Spiegelman
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All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. Some beliefs are false, and we know them to be false. So it does no good to…
— Ravi Zacharias
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We know people by their stories: their history, their habits, their secrets, their triumphs and failures. We know them by what they do. We want…
— Bruce Barcott
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We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.
— Alexander Pope
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There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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