Known Quotes

The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.

Screw every known human culture.

Truth has her sterner responsibilities sooner or later in store for those who have known anything about her.

I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'

It was the worst hurt he had ever known.

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial, but if ever I should, it will be then known how far I can reduce to practice, principles, which I know to be founded in truth.

I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.

I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism.

I only want the truth to be known, for everyone to take responsibility for their actions.

We must pray constantly for His enabling grace to say no to temptation, of choosing to take all practical steps to avoid known areas of temptation and flee from those that surprise us.

People who focus on 'getting better' goals (also known as Personal Bests) as opposed to performance goals have a much better chance of success.

I don't think Wisconsin should become known as a state where we shoot cats.

I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.

Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.

I should have known I am the rain. I am the land and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while.

We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.

We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.

The water color process takes me and itself to a destination I hadn't even known existed... Whatever I put down on the page, the paint will dry as it wants to.

Miles away from everthing and everyone I've ever known or loved. I feel as if I've entered a new era of my life. What strange places our lives carry us to.

As is well known, all collectors are prepared to steal or murder if it is a question of getting another piece for their collection; but this does not lower their moral character in the least.

in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.

If I'd known it was going to take 25 years, I'd have started earlier.

A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.

I've been known to just pass out instantaneously, like, anywhere.

Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her enjoyment.

Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man.

Only one who has known how troubled life can be, has a real appreciation of it when it is good

Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.

If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.

I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.

Greyface and his followers took the game of playing at life more seriously than they took life itself and were known even to destroy other living beings whose ways of life differed from their own.

An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.

Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." Lisa Simpson

I was involved with Wells Fargo Bank as a consultant in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I suggested to them that they develop a product that has become known as index funds.

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be known.

Goth Juice... The most powerful hairspray known to man. Made from the tears of Robert Smith.

When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.

It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.

When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.

Most marriages I've known, and I've been married a long time and I've known a lot of married people - you wonder how they got together. Often they seem to be opposites.

Teaching is what is technically known as a polymorphous activity; it quite literally takes many different forms.

The only economic paradigm that movies have ever known is capitalism. There were no church sponsors or state patronage. The idea was that if you'd pay to see it, we'll make it for you.

There is only one difference between teacher and disciple: the former is slightly less afraid than the latter.” ~Deidre O’Neill, known as Edde (p. 213)

A PILGRIM IS A WANDERER WITH A PURPOSE. A pilgrimage can be to a place - that's the best known kind - but it can also be for a thing. Mine is for peace, and that is why I am a Peace Pilgrim.

It's so important to encourage the use of sun cream, tan in a bottle and the disuse of sun beds which are known world-wide as causes of skin cancer.

I've got one of four known Davy Crocket rifles. It's fantastic just to know it's one of the rifles that he actually used. His cousin had it.