Known Quotes
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It is strange to be known so universally
and yet to be so lonely.
- Albert Einstein

True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Man's nature is not essentially evil.
Brute nature has been known to
yield to the influence of love.
You must never despair of human nature.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
- John Lennon

Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates

Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes

Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
- American Indian Proverb

Walking takes longer...
than any other known form of locomotion except crawling.
Thus it stretches time and prolongs life.
Life is already too short to waste on speed.
- Edward Abbey

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge
and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you,
you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
- Walt Disney

If i had known... i would have lingered
over my coffee a little longer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If I had known what it would be like to have it all -
I might have been willing to settle for less.
- Lily Tomlin

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives,
but still hidden from the public, is that most things
get better by themselves;
most things,
in fact, are better in the morning.
- Lewis Thomas

Every known fact in natural science was divined
by the presentiment of somebody,
before it was actually verified.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we see the face of God
we shall know that we have always known it.
He has been a party to, has made, sustained
and moved moment by moment within,
all our earthly experiences of innocent love.
- C. S. Lewis

Every goal, every action, every thought,
every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known,
is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.
- Sydney Madwed

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor
upon the business known as gambling.
- Ambrose Bierce

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the
most exquisite form of torture ever known to man:
survival.
- Edward Everett Hale

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

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the
ruins of Troy and so do we all,
whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
- Angela Carter

Americans are the only people in the world known to
me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their
college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.
- Paul Fussell

Human beings must be known to be loved;
but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
- Blaise Pascal

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward
what is arcane and concealed.
- Khalil Gibran

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight,
otherwise known as political power.
- Maggie Gallagher

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

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had
known what was hidden within him,
he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
- Khalil Gibran

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you,
fame.
If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle.
So at least it's something I experience,
but that's not where I live.
- Marilyn Monroe

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
- Allen Klein

Character is always known.
Thefts never enrich;
alms never impoverish;
murder will speak out of stone walls.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to
be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.
- Cameron Diaz

I have known war as few men now living know it.
It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has
rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
- Douglas MacArthur

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that
its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
- Friedrich August von Hayek

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
- Bette Davis

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
- Kurt Cobain

The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter
of whom nothing is known.
And now let us have a look at his paintings.
- Balthus

My father also happened to be an intellectual,
as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known.
Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher.
- James Tobin

By making a comeback, I'm changing the attitude of people toward me.
If I'd known that people would react so enthusiastically,
I'd have done it years ago.
- Mark Spitz

The fact that my female characters have strong personalities
but are also physically attractive probably reflects
the women I've known in my life.
- Sidney Sheldon

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence,
although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work
of His more surely known to us.
- Thomas Aquinas

If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do,
I'd have run again.
- Harry S. Truman

It is a far, far better thing that I do,
than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to,
than I have ever known.
- Charles Dickens

Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time.
We have an affinity.
We share certain values.
- Terry Southern

I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.
- David Byrne

It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.
- Carl Karcher

I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know.
That is, the music business is a business.
- Steve Brown

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself,
or his own virtue.
- David Mallet

It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.
- Bashar al-Assad

At heart, this job is about continuing to make great
theatre for the people of Sheffield -
a city I've known and loved since childhood.
- Samuel West

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace,
invisible in war.
- William Tecumseh Sherman

We have what we seek, it is there all the time,
and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
- Thomas Merton

I have long known that it is part of God's plan for
me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.
- Bill Bryson

I've known Jan, probably, very well for,
well, for over a decade.
And the passion that Jan just showed the viewers in
that particular piece is very real.
- Rex Hunt

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood
as their political opinions,
and much less criticized.
- Ben Hecht

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
- Homer

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons.
He was known as much for being wild and unconventional
in his working methods as for being a great artist.
- Kenneth Noland

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

What I have known with respect to myself,
has tended much to lessen both my admiration,
and my contempt, of others.
- Joseph Priestley

We call that person who has lost his father,
an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife.
But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend,
by what name do we call him? Here every language is
silent and holds its peace in impotence.
- Joseph Roux

Once in a while, I try to sneak in something less known anyway.
- Bobby Short

It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known.
I mean human reproduction, the human body,
nature and so on.
To surprise them with a new technique.
- Lennart Nilsson

The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles,
I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for
other things besides just cartoon shows.
- Dan Castellaneta

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts,
someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.
- Kiefer Sutherland

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet,
mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel,
and turmoil, or there is no existence.
- George Byron

I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.
- Ring Lardner

Giving life to music through skating was something
I wanted to be known for.
- Peggy Fleming

We're very pleased to be on a show which is known and loved around the world.
- Harry Shearer

On the third stage is used for medicine,
it is not known to the public.
- Betty Hill

What a year to live in!
Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.
- Thomas Starr King