Known Quotes

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.

Boston is known for its innovation.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Social Security should have a self-sustaining portion that was funded by contributions from both employers and employees. That's what we know and have known for 70 successful years.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary - that's the first place I ever did it, in the seminary.

No, no, no separate but equal... never the twain shall meet. And the pendulum kept swinging and it came to rest in the bastard hybrid known as the Daily Show.

I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born.

The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette.

This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control.

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced. That's what good pop music is all about, pop music that does reach out to people. It's very personalized and very real, honest and sincere.

We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.

No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter.

It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.