In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
Maimonides

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.
Maimonides

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

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
Nikita Khrushchev

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
Dan Quayle

I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
Jackie Chan

I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.
Paris Hilton

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
W. H. Auden

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
John Ruskin

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
Roger Bacon

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
Bertrand Russell

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
Bertrand Russell

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Bertrand Russell

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
William James

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
Emily Bronte

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.
Gene Simmons

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
George Eliot

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.
Xenophanes

God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.
John Piper