Known Quotes - page 3

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. (Baruch Spinoza)
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. View quote
Jacob Bronowski
Separate we come and separate we go, And this, be it known, is all that we know. View quote
Conrad Aiken
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
This is the strangest life I've ever known. View quote
Jim Morrison
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run. View quote
James Russell Lowell
No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick. View quote
Erma Bombeck
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. View quote
Henry Adams
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. View quote
Terry Pratchett
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. View quote
Max Beerbohm
I was known as the chief grave robber of my state. (Dan Quayle)
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. View quote
Charles Dickens
I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought. View quote
Karl Jaspers
The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge. View quote
Meister Eckhart
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. View quote
Joseph Conrad
The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover. View quote
Louis de Broglie
A friend is nothing but a known enemy. View quote
Kurt Cobain
If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized. View quote
Romeo LeBlanc
Should not the Society of Indexers be known as Indexers, Society of, The? View quote
Keith Waterhouse
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. (Basil of Caesarea)
Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this. View quote
Homer
The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes. View quote
Avicenna
Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced. View quote
James Nasmyth
Optimizing responses of economic agents are simultaneously feasible only if the proper prices are already known to them. But these prices must somehow themselves be the result of the same responses. View quote
Tjalling Koopmans
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