Known Quotes - page 4

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. (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
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty. View quote
Fisher Ames
Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,imported by Madame de Stal, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,'Providence has given to the French the empire of the land to the English that of the sea to the Germans that ofthe air' Richter German humorist prose writer. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply. View quote
Norman Borlaug
I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati. View quote
Adam Weishaupt
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barbers shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin. Wait till you come to Forty Year. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. (Henry James)
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. View quote
Roger Bacon
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. View quote
Garrison Keillor
In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die. View quote
Samuel Johnson
This world, where much is to be done and little to be known. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help The notice which you have been pleased to take care of my labors, had it been early, had been kind but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it till I am solitary, and cannot impart it till I am known, and do not want it. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Let him go abroad to a distant country let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known. View quote
Samuel Johnson
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. View quote
Henry Miller
I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department. View quote
Joseph McCarthy
The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words. (Emil Cioran)
My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons. View quote
Gene Simmons
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. View quote
Claude Bernard
Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause - and of obstinacy in a bad one. View quote
Laurence Sterne
The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease. View quote
Betty Friedan