Top 34 Unsought Quotes
#1. To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.
E. O. Wilson
#2. The little that he had said, thus far, had been sufficient to convince me that I was speaking to a gentleman. He had what I may venture to describe as the unsought self-possession, which is a sure sign of good breeding, not in England only, but everywhere else in the civilized world.
Wilkie Collins
#3. A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought
Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade,
Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out.
It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad.
William Butler Yeats
#5. The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
John Locke
#7. With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light - by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.
P.L. Travers
#8. Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
Francis Bacon
#9. A lady has every right to defend herself against unsought advances. And creatures of the night.
Teresa Medeiros
#10. A girl's affections should never be won unsought.
Anne Bronte
#11. We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#12. Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
Sophocles
#13. Mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently
F Scott Fitzgerald
#15. The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.
Fanny Fern
#16. I suppose if we gain anything from this unsought experience it will be an appreciation for honesty- frankness on the part of our politicians, our friends, our loves, ourselves. No more liars in public places. (And the bed and the bar are, in their way, as public as the floor of Congress.)
Tim O'Brien
#17. Unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or
F Scott Fitzgerald
#18. How strangely does the adventurous intrude upon the humdrum; for, when it intrudes at all, more often than not its intrusion is sudden and unlooked for. To-day, we may seek for romance and fail to find it: unsought, it lies in wait for us at most prosaic corners of life's highway.
Sax Rohmer
#19. My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.
Thomas Eakins
#20. Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset ... there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.
Albert Schweitzer
#21. Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
Pearl S. Buck
#22. No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought..
C.S. Lewis
#23. [T]he joy of travel is not nearly so much in getting where one wants to go as in the unsought surprises which occur on the journey.
Alan W. Watts
#24. Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.
John Milton
#26. I want to be the most unsold, and the most unsought-after author, after I stop selling my fake name anagrams on the internet.
Will Advise
#27. Love might come suddenly, unsought, from a place not looked for, and stay for a while before departing into the distance, to a place where it cannot be reached.
Edward Rutherfurd
#30. A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.
Robin Skelton
#31. Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.
Hans Bender
#32. You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.
Eleanor Porter
#33. I've never done anybody any harm in my entire life. No need to chase girls, I've thousands of them on Top Of The Pops, thousands on Radio One.
Jimmy Savile
#34. I've poured my heart out on this page. Now burn it and destroy the evidence that anyone ever cared this much for you.
Kate McGahan
