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There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.
Donald Rumsfeld

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
Albert Einstein

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
Abraham Lincoln

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known.
Confucius

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Mark Twain

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
Mark Twain

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

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
William Shakespeare

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
William Shakespeare