#known

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#abstraction #ages #commitment #continuous #contrary

We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#found #shores #strange #unknown

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions. ↗

— Paul Henderson

#east #fairy #fairy tales #folklore #known

Failure is a word unknown to me. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#me #unknown #word

I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults. ↗

— William Joyce

#encouraged #enjoyed #enthusiasms #go #i

I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'. ↗

— Christopher Judge

#always #anything #crossed #decided #else

It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong. ↗

— Robert Kagan

#age #almost #earliest #i #known

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#getting #got #had #known #lies

British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#firemen #generally #gorgeous #known #loveliness

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#born #cincinnati #family #general #i