Quotes of Unfamiliar - somelinesforyou

“ What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ He trudg'd along, unknowing what he sought,And whistled as he went, for want of thought. ”

- John Dryden

“ There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war. ”

- Amelia Earhart

“ Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there? ”

- Harold Pinter

“ Something unknown is doing we don't know what. ”

- Ecclesiastes

“ Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers. ”

- Howard Thurman

“ The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. ”

- Paul Fix

“ The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms. ”

- Galen

“ Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ”

- Thomas Mann

“ It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it. ”

- Elisabeth Kubler Ross

“ Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. ”

- Denis Waitley

“ Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. ”

- Cynthia Ozick

“ When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. ”

- Walter Lippmann

“ Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add. ”

- Nelson Goodman
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