Known Quotes - page 4

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. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

Norman Borlaug

I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.

Adam Weishaupt

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

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.

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.

Roger Bacon

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

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.

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.

Samuel Johnson

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known. (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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gene Simmons

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

Claude Bernard

Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause - and of obstinacy in a bad one.

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.

Betty Friedan

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. (Corrie Ten Boom)

I am bound by my own definition of criticism a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

Matthew Arnold

Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.

Oscar Wilde

My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.

David Bohm

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

Bob Woodward

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