Known Quotes

Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely.

Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.

What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.

I was unable to walk for a whole week after that, so much did the race take out of me. But it was the most pleasant exhaustion I have ever known.

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. ... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

If it had blown up, I wouldn’t have known a thing about it.

Every secret gets known to the world.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.

If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know.

Every State is known by the rights it maintains.

The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?

People aren't blind. They know - they want to have a country where people who are coming in are known to our authorities, those who are in charge of this.

I've already done enough to have earned 'good driver,' so if I can be known as a great person and a good driver, that's better than only being a great driver.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.

I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.

It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina for reasons which are well known to them.

People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.

Scientists have long known that Darwinism is false. They have adhered to the myth out of self-interest and a zealous desire to put down God.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

Have you ever known anyone who bought a fruitcake for himself? Of course not. They are purchased as Christmas gifts, mostly for people you don't particularly like.

And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?

Love is qualified as an attribute of that force, power or influence known as God. Thus as man makes application of love in his daily experience, he finds God a personal God.

There are no fans more rabid or devoted than KISS fans. KISS fans are what all other fans are measured against. That's how it came to be known as the KISS Army.

[On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain

You need bruises to know blessings and I have known both.

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

The frequencies in my head are not known to normals!

The sense of being alone is a huge issue for so many people in this world. As a worshipper of Jesus, there's a very real sense that we are always seen, held and known.

People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood

Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.

Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?

We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.

For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

I've always known I'm incredibly special. All my life. You know? It's not a big deal.

Love is subsequent to knowledge and to the thing known, for nothing unknown is loved.

Encourage and listen well to the words of your subordinates. It is well known that gold lies hidden underground.

Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.

There's a reason I'm known - to bring people to Allah, to God.

Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)

Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.