95 Known Quotes

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Famous Known Quotes

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking. — Bernard Baruch

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. — Kahlil Gibran

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. — St. Basil

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Woman is the most precious gift known to man. - Rick Ross

Woman is the most precious gift known to man. — Rick Ross

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

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

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community. — Dorothy Day

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite. - Proverbs

Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite. — Proverbs

You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Short Known Quotes

  • Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. — Carl Sagan
  • Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this. — Homer
  • A friend is known when needed. — Arabic Proverbs
  • I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity. — Rudyard Kipling
  • True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. — Charles Caleb Colton
  • Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears. — Mark Antony
  • The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette. — Giambattista Valli
  • Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor. — Allen Klein
  • Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. — Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
  • I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. — Mark Twain

Known Image Quotes

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde quote

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. — Oscar Wilde

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. - Anna Freud quote

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. — Anna Freud

When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man. - Jimi Hendrix quote

When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man. — Jimi Hendrix

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it. - Eric Nicol quote

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it. — Eric Nicol

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. - W. H. Auden quote

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. — W. H. Auden

I've always been known as the fat kid from Stand By Me. - Jerry O'Connell quote

I've always been known as the fat kid from Stand By Me. — Jerry O'Connell

I've known my mom since I was zero years old. She is quite dope. - Kanye West quote

I've known my mom since I was zero years old. She is quite dope. — Kanye West

Known quote I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who te
I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.

Don't Know What To Say Quotes

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am. — Michelle Obama

If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end. — Michel Foucault

Do your thing. Do it unapologetically. Don't be discouraged by criticism. You probably already know what they're going to say. Pay no mind to the fear of failure. It's far more valuable than success. Take ownership, take chances, and have fun. And no matter what, don't ever stop doing your thing. — Asher Roth

Known quote Words of comfort skillfully administered are the oldest therapy known to man.
Words of comfort skillfully administered are the oldest therapy known to man.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

I don't even know what a traditional producer is or does. I feel like the job is like being a coach, building good work habits and building trust. You want to get to a point where you can say anything and talk about anything. There needs to be a real connection. — Rick Rubin

It's like I know what I gotta say, I just don't know how to say it to you. - Drake

It's like I know what I gotta say, I just don't know how to say it to you. — Drake

Known quote The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of fai
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

The thing that drives me nuts is when I get stopped in a crowded place, and they look at me and say, 'Who are you?' I don't know if they're friends or fans, and I say, 'I'm Annabella Sciorra', and they say, 'What have you done?' So I start to give them my resume. It's so embarrassing. — Annabella Sciorra

The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.' — Eric Schmidt

You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, 'You know what? I'm giving up, I don't care.' And then you go to bed and you wake up and it's a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again. — Nicole Scherzinger

In all my travels, all my life adventures; I have to say I still don’t know what life is, absolutely no clue, and it is a subject that is constantly on my mind. One thing I do know for a fact is that the nicer we are to our fellow human beings, the nicer the universe is to us. — Joe Rogan

Lesser Known Quotes

A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse! — William Shakespeare

Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757: By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes. — Colonel William Prescott

It's a lesser-known story, but the Japanese government (after the Russian-Nazi pact, which split Poland) did allow Polish Jews to come to Japan, with the expectation that they would then be sent to the United States. But they weren't accepted, so they stayed in Japan. — Noam Chomsky

Known quote Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

I've found that depending on the amount of the check, disciplined inspiration can be called upon willingly. I think the name of the lesser known tenth muse was Dollar Dollar Bill Y'all. — Kevin Keck

It is a well known and very important fact that America's founding fathers did not like taxation without representation. It is a lesser known and equally important fact that they did not much like taxation with representation. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I like to tell untold true stories, or the lesser-known aspects of larger, familiar stories. I think people or topics that are slightly on the edge or outside the mainstream often reveal more than better-known stories. — Nancy Kates

Known quote A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

Listening is one of the lesser-known skills that mistresses offer. — Betty Jane Wylie

Netflix has such a knack for giving a new life to those B-movies that you thought and hoped no one would ever see. Especially when you have a new project coming out and they're looking to mine some of your lesser-known films. — Spencer Grammer

The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised. — Lao Tzu

Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work. — Daniel Handler

Well Known Quotes

Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV. — Marie Antoinette

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. — Abraham Lincoln

Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line. — William Goldman

Known quote Friendship isn't about whom you have known the longest. It's about who came, and never left your sid
Friendship isn't about whom you have known the longest. It's about who came, and never left your side.

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time. — Henry Flynt

When the interests of the salesmen and promoters differ from those of the client, the client had better look out for himself. This is the well-known agency problem in economics, where the interest of the agents or managers don’t coincide with those of the principals, or owners. — Edward O. Thorp

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. - Elias Canetti

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. — Elias Canetti

Known quote A good archer is known not by his arrows but by his aim.
A good archer is known not by his arrows but by his aim.

To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great lawyers or philanthropists or business people or work their way up the political ladder. I happened to become known from a different route. — John Glenn

The University of Westminster is well known for being a hotbed of extremist activity. — Maajid Nawaz

Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known. - G. Stanley Hall

Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known. — G. Stanley Hall

It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others. - Alfred Adler

It is well known that those who do not trust themselves never trust others. — Alfred Adler

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More Known Quotes

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. — Haile Selassie

I have never known more than fifteen minutes of anxiety or fear. Whenever I feel fearful emotions overtaking me, I just close my eyes and thank God that He is still on the throne reigning over everything and I take comfort in His control over the affairs of my life. — John Wesley

We are now all Pakistanis — not Baluchis, Pathans, Sindhis, Bengalis, Punjabis and so on — and as Pakistanis, we must feet behave and act, and we should be proud to be known as Pakistanis and nothing else. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield. — Attila the Hun

If there is one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people I’ve known are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self interest. — John Glenn

Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life? — Jean Piaget

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing. — Georgia O'Keeffe

I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being. — Maya Angelou

The secret of Masonry, like the secret of life, can be known only by those who seek it, serve it, live it. It cannot be uttered; it can only be felt and acted. It is, in fact, an open secret, and each man knows it according to his quest and capacity. Like all things worth knowing, no one can know it for another and no man can know it alone. — William Howard Taft

If you come to doubt, I'll give you every reason to doubt. If you come suspicious, I'll give you every reason to be suspicious. But if you come seeking Love, I'll show you more love than you've ever known — Mahavatar Babaji

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. — Otto von Bismarck

By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. — Adam Smith

From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination. — Shimon Peres

It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever known.' It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival. — Richard Buckminster Fuller

The Goddess does not rule the world; She is the world. Manifest in each of us, She can be known internally by every individual, in all her magnificent diversity. — Starhawk

Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts. — Parker J. Palmer

Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others. — Gorgias

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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