Known Quotes - page 2

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness. (Daniel J. Boorstin)
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
Joseph Conrad
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.
Jean Cocteau
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Agnes de Mille
I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves.
Harriet Tubman
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
Edmund Waller
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?
Charles de Lint
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
James Thurber
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. (Blaise Pascal)
For there is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and to have recovered hope.
George Eliot
It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.
George Eliot
Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.
Lily Tomlin
History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
Ernest Hemingway
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
Ernest Hemingway
Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
Richard Bach
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
Albert Jay Nock
A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long. (E. E. Cummings)
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
William Cowper
Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?
Abraham Pais
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
Hilaire Belloc
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