Top 25 Known Quotes of 372

The fear of death is far greater than the death itself. But the fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all!

The fear of death is far greater than the death itself. But the fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all!

The Undertaker

Greatest Fear, Fear Of The Unknown, Fear Of Death

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Done, Known

Woman is the most precious gift known to man.

Rick Ross

Men, Precious Gifts, Known

"Rick Ross ‘U.O.E.N.O.’ Date Rape Lyrics: Rapper Responds To Controversy", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2013.

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

Avicenna

Causes, All Things, Known

"On Medicine". Essay by Avicenna (circa 1020), as quoted in "The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East" edited by Charles F. Horne (Volume VI "Medieval Arabia", pp. 90-91), sourcebooks.fordham.edu. 1917.

God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.

Galileo Galilei

Doctrine, Known

Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

Galileo Galilei

Dare, Knows, Known

The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.

Socrates

Needs, Known, Values

This is the strangest life I've ever known.

Jim Morrison

Doors, Known

"Song: 'Waiting for the Sun'". 1970.

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

Alfred Adler

Never Trust, Well Known, Trust Others

Alfred Adler (2013). “Understanding Human Nature (Psychology Revivals)”, p.128, Routledge

God's name is not known; it is wondered at.

Gregory of Nyssa

Names, Known

Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked.

Juana Inés de la Cruz

Known, Ifs

Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.

G. Stanley Hall

Well Known, Wells, Menstruation

G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.428, Read Books Ltd

The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths

Che Guevara

Baths, Purity, Well Known

With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.

Alfred de Musset

Kissing, Unknown Worlds, Hug

Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought.

Cleopatra

Greatness, Known

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

Emile M. Cioran

Aphorism, Midst, Known

Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.7, Arcade Publishing

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Power, Force, Known

Alfred Thayer Mahan (1912). “Armaments and Arbitration, Or, The Place of Force in the International Relations of States”, p.105, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

I'm known for taking pictures very close, and the older I get, the closer I get.

Bruce Gilden

Taking Pictures, Known

The heart of mine is only one, it cannot be known by anybody but myself.

Junichiro Tanizaki

Heart, Mines, Known

I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your hands on very easily. Things that are kind of nebulous and they feel like they're not completely formed. You have to feel your way through that.

Gotye

Unknown Worlds, Hands, Way

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld

Knows, Known

Donald Rumsfeld during Department of Defense News Briefing, archive.defense.gov. February 12, 2002.