Unknown Quotes - page 3

One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past. (George Crumb)
There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues. View quote
Kenneth Lay
I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung. View quote
Kate Smith
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown. View quote
Stephen Gardiner
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity... View quote
Buckminster Fuller
Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider them as being almost as ancient as humanity itself. Nevertheless we are tempted to inquire how far the fact that some of these beliefs and legends have so many features in common is due to chance, and wether the similarity between them may not point to the exestience of an ancient, totally unknown and unsuspected civilization of which all other traces have disappeared. View quote
Frederick Soddy
What made Obama unique was that he was the ultimate charismatic politician -- the most unknown stranger ever to achieve the presidency in the United States. No one knew who he was, he came out of nowhere, he had this incredible persona that floated him above the fray, destroyed Hillary, took over the Democratic Party and became president. This is truly unprecedented: A young unknown with no history, no paper trail, no well-known associates, self-created. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
At my door the Pale Horse stands To carry me to unknown lands. View quote
John Hay
All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods. View quote
William James
The philosophers likewise assume that in Nature there is nothing in vain, so that everything that is not the product of human industry serves a certain purpose, which may be known or unknown to us. View quote
Maimonides
Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown - even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to. (Paulo Coelho)
People need not fear the unknown if they're capable of achieving what they need and want. View quote
Paulo Coelho
In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people. View quote
Blaise Pascal
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before - a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
He liked to observe emotions they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points. View quote
Ayn Rand
They had dreams but they called them dreams because they were unrelated to reality, they were a distant unknown, an impossibility, they would never come true. View quote
James Frey
In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to the customs of the people of the United States that I doubt whether they would ever dare to introduce it into their law. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Each new ontological theory, propounded in lieu of previous ones shown to be untenable, has been followed by a new criticism leading to a new scepticism. All possible conceptions have been one by one tried and found wanting; and so the entire field of speculation has been gradually exhausted without positive result: the only result reached being the negative one above stated, that the reality existing behind all appearances is, and must ever be, unknown. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Why I should be in Romania in the name of unknown to me goal. There was a time when I led soldiers to battle, thinking I was doing my duty as a Russian patriot. However, I understood that we have been cheated, that people needed peace. The old army and Soviet Union are not compatible, therefore, my military career had to end. With no remorse, I could go back to my favorite occupation, working in the field. View quote
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Traditionally, economic analysis treats the economic system as one of the givens. The term "design" in the title is meant to stress that the structure of the economic system is to be regarded as an unknown. An unknown in what problem? Typically that of finding a system that would be, in a sense to be specified, superior to the existing one. The idea of searching for a better system is at least as ancient as Plato's Republic, but it is only recently that tools have become available for a systematic, analytical approach to such search procedures. This new approach refuses to accept the institutional status quo of a particular time and place as the only legitimate object of interest and yet recognizes constraints that disqualify naive Utopias. (Leonid Hurwicz)
Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence. View quote
Leonard Nimoy
Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none! View quote
Alexander Pope
Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft