Top 82 Least Known Quotes
#1. ( ... )we all recognize a likeness of Shakespeare the instant we see one, and yet we don't really know what he looked like. It is like this with nearly every aspect of his life and character: He is at once the best known and least known of figures.
Bill Bryson
#2. Autism and seizures are the least known areas of illnesses.
John Travolta
#3. Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#4. The Lesbian is one of the least known members of our culture. Less is known about her - and less accurately - than about the Newfoundland dog.
Sidney Abbott
#5. For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor.
William Ames
#6. At the beginning of the new millennium, we still do not know why mathematics is true and whether it is certain. But we know what we do not know in an immeasurably richer way than we did. And learning this has been a remarkable achievement-among the greatest and least-known of the modern era.
David Berlinski
#7. Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe.
Bram Stoker
#8. Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
Will Rogers
#10. I have known kings and criminals. I prefer criminals. They cheat, steal and betray, but at least you don't have to worship them while they do it.
Lynda S. Robinson
#11. I don't think anyone can ever put into words the great things (Joe) DiMaggio did. Of all the stars I've known, DiMaggio needed the least coaching.
Joe
#12. Marketers have long known that a name can make all the difference when you're trying to move the merch. The kiwifruit was once the Chinese gooseberry, after all - at least until the produce peddlers wised up - and the Chilean sea bass was once the singularly unappetizing Patagonian toothfish.
Jeffrey Kluger
#13. The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.
Laozi
#14. It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
Nicolas Caussin
#15. One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
George Saintsbury
#16. Was I interrupting? I thought it was over." Rhys gave me a smile dripping with venom. He knew-through that bond, through whatever magic was between us, he'd known I was about to say no. "At least Feyre seemed to think so.
Sarah J. Maas
#17. The actor's realm is that of the fleeting. Of all kinds of fame, it is known, his is the most ephemeral. At least, this is said in conversation. But all kinds of fame are ephemeral. From the point of view of Sirius, Goethe's works in ten thousand years will be dust and his name forgotten.
Albert Camus
#18. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
Douglas Adams
#19. As is well known, all collectors are prepared to steal or murder if it is a question of getting another piece for their collection; but this does not lower their moral character in the least.
Karel Capek
#20. Interestingly, differential cryptanalysis was first discovered in the research community in 1990. At this point, the IBM team declared that the attack was known to the designers at least 16 years earlier, and that DES was especially designed to withstand differential cryptanalysis. Finally,
Christof Paar
#21. Since I am known as a 'rich' person, I feel I have to tip at least $5 each time I check my coat. On top of that, I would have to wear a very expensive coat, and it would have to be insured. Added up, without a topcoat I save over $20,000 a year.
Aristotle Onassis
#22. Whatever we refuse to recognize about ourselves has a way of rearing its head and making itself known when we least expect it.
Debbie Ford
#23. Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die. At least, that's the way we're planning it.
Alice Hoffman
#24. What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself.
Pablo Picasso
#25. Begging your pardon,' groused the Yeti, 'but I believe you haven't the first idea of what's happened to me or the weather in Fairyland or the least fact about the least thing in the known universe. Just my opinion, of course.
Catherynne M Valente
#26. My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.
Robert Cormier
#27. Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.
Francis Ford Coppola
#28. She, at least, ought to have known that he was wearing a mask, and having found that out, she should have torn it from his face, whenever they were alone together ... Her love for him had been paltry and weak, easily crushed by her own pride
Emmuska Orczy
#29. For a moment I felt the terror. The deep primeval terror of something one does not understand, something which is against nature or, at the least, against everything one has ever seen or known before.
Philippa Gregory
#30. The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.
Lord Chesterfield
#31. I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.
Shelby Foote
#32. It is no coincidence that ours is a time afflicted by a widespread sense of attentional crisis, at least in the West - one captured by the phrase 'homo distractus,' a species of ever shorter attention span known for compulsively checking his devices.
Tim Wu
#33. I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
Orson Scott Card
#34. God hath not revealed anything to Joseph, but what he will make known unto the Twelve, and even the least Saint may know all things as fast as he is able to bear them ...
Joseph Smith Jr.
#35. The head of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, made it perfectly clear: sophisticated investors don't, or at least shouldn't, rely on trust. Those who bought the products the banks sold were consenting adults who should have known better.
Joseph E. Stiglitz
#36. Life is sweet, even to the aged; and, for that matter, I've known some that seemed to set much store by it when it got to be of the least value.
James Fenimore Cooper
#37. 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
#38. Becoming well known (at least among your prospects & connections) is the most valuable element in the connection process.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#39. As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.
Stanley Schmidt
#40. At least 99.92% of illegal immigrants and visa overstays without known crimes on their records did not face removal.
Jeff Sessions
#41. The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
Benjamin Whichcote
#42. Life has this beautiful way of opening doors when you least expect it. How thy open is sometimes never known. But does that not only further justify the magic and the possibility to the thought, that there is more to life than that which meets thee eye.
Tania Elizabeth
#43. She stopped, picked up the paper, stood there to read the headlines. But nothing seemed changed, or at least the paper made the current crises sound like all the old ones; the ferment of politics, the clash of minor foreign wars, the dismay over local crime seemed of a pattern she'd always known.
Dolores Hitchens
#44. Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law.
L. Ron Hubbard
#45. I never bore people I haven't known for at least a thousand years.
J.D. Salinger
#46. If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.
Kurt Warner
#47. Test cricket is the only thing that counts. One-day and T20 performances are fine, but you rate a player by his status as a Test player. By the time I finish, I want to play at least 80 Tests and be known for my achievements in Tests.
Suresh Raina
#48. It's been amazing to play a character that's known by so many people, especially because everyone knows at least something about Peter Pan.
Levi Miller
#49. Your brain has more than 100 billion cells, each connected to at least 20,000 other cells. The possible combinations are greater than the number of molecules in the known universe.
Brian Tracy
#50. We grow to deserve what we need to believe ...
Since I've known you
I've been careful not to pray out loud
Wishes have a way of coming true when you least expect ...
Merrit Malloy
#51. Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#52. In love marriages, you at least know your partner. A known devil is better than an unknown one!
Mona Singh
#53. For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power.
Max Von Laue
#54. I have known exceptional people who have endured severe trials while others, at least on the surface, seem to have lived charmed lives.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#55. Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#56. Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#57. Her beauty is the least of her dower-and she is the most beautiful woman I've ever known. That laugh of hers! I've angled all summer to evoke that laugh, just for the delight of hearing it.
L.M. Montgomery
#58. Better to walk through life simply and without masks, than to lose ourselves in the pursuit of identities that are purely cosmetic and commercial. Then, at least, we will be known for what we are rather than for what we are not.
Joan D. Chittister
#59. I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them.
Neil Gaiman
#60. If he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat.
John Eldredge
#61. There are men who love to gaze with the mind at things that can never be seen, feel at least the throb of a beauty that will never be known and hear over immense, bleak reaches the echo of that which is no celestial music but only their heart's vain cries.
A.E. Coppard
#62. Today's breakfast consist of rice and a piece of bread fried in a bit of salt pork grease. At least I have my memories of grand banquets and fine foods, but this is all the children have ever known. I suppose it is best not to have anything to compare.
Nancy B. Brewer
#63. We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
Arthur Helps
#64. Especially as I was an old friend, or at least I was a person she had known for a long time, which after a certain point is almost the same thing ...
Julian Fellowes
#65. 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
#66. Many people over forty have at least one health condition that affects their ability to work a forty hour work week effectively. Human Resources (HR), doctors and governments have known this fact for decades.
Steven Magee
#67. But Hyacinth Bridgerton, who at ten should have known the least about kisses of anyone, just blinked thoughtfully, and said, I think it's nice. If they're laughing now, they'll probably be laughing forever.
Julia Quinn
#68. To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse - that cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature.
Richard Adams
#69. People have always known, at least since Moses denounced the Golden Calf, that images were dangerous, that they can captivate the onlooker and steal the soul.
William J. Mitchell
#70. I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least one can do.
Emmanuelle Beart
#71. Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and Washington, is the best known of the Islamic militants to have emerged in the past 20 years and the least difficult to fathom.
James Buchan
#72. Philosophers have argued about the strongest emotion known to man. Some say 'love', others 'hate', others 'fear'. I am disposed to put 'curiosity' on a level, at least, with these august sensations, just mere simple inquisitiveness.
E.F. Benson
#73. Somehow, he was not in the least surprised, nor was he alarmed. On the contrary, he felt a sense of calm expectation, such as he had once known when the space medics had tested him with hallucinogenic drugs. The world around him was strange and wonderful, but there was nothing to fear.
Arthur C. Clarke
#74. People didn't really like McDonald's, same as her mum didn't really like Catholicism, but when you were new in town, at least it was a known quantity. So that'll be a Quarter-Pounder and a Communion Wafer meal-deal to go.
Christopher Brookmyre
#75. To get at the core of God at his greatest, one must first get to the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not first known himself. This core is a simple stillness, which is unmoved itself but by whose immobility all things are moved and all receive life.
Meister Eckhart
#76. For a moment I think we were turned into information, and that in that instant we were linked to every other piece of information ever known; every thought ever thought, or at least ever captured by the light.
Alastair Reynolds
#77. You are the least-alone person I have ever known. Your heart has always included within it everyone who let you love them, and many who did not.
Orson Scott Card
#78. The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it is socialized education - just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office - and cannot possibly be separated from political control.
Frank Chodorov
#79. At least since Darwin's day, we have known that all of us originally emerged from the sea. That fact may account for our abiding fascination with it, our longing to return there, whether to sail the main or merely contemplate its restless enormity.
J. D. McClatchy
#80. There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
#81. The people we've known the longest are often the people we know the least.
Paul Levine
#82. Everyone dies. The don't all have the chance to see what they wanted most. At least I've seen the Above. At least I've known True.
Ally Condie
