Shoreline Quotes:

The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don’t know.

- Leonard Sweet

source: "Jesus: A Theography". Book by Frank Viola, Leonard Sweet, October 9, 2012.

topic: Islands, Bigger, Shoreline

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

- Aristotle

topic: Logical, Shoreline, Knows

As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

- Huston Smith

topic: Islands, Wonder, Shoreline

Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.

- Sarah Kay

source: Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”

topic: Love, Inspirational, Beautiful, Kissing Someone, Ocean Currents

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

- Ralph Washington Sockman

topic: Graduation, Islands, Wonder, Knowledge And Wisdom, Knowledge Gained

I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather fronts, international borders. There are interesting frictions and incongruities in these places, and often, if you stand at the point of tangency, you can see both sides better than if you were in the middle of either one.

- Anne Fadiman

source: Anne Fadiman (1998). “The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures”, p.8, Macmillan

topic: Weather, Interesting, Borders, Incongruity, Friction

Bad things are like waves. They're going to happen to you, and there's nothing you can do about it. They're part of life, like waves are a part of the ocean. If you're standing on the shoreline, you don't know when the waves are coming. But they'll come. You gotta make sure you get back to the surface, after every wave. That's all.

- Lisa Scottoline

source: Lisa Scottoline (2010). “Look Again”, p.218, Macmillan

topic: Ocean, Wave, Surface, Shoreline

All our science and philosophy form only an island of knowledge surrounded by an ocean of mystery. The larger the island grows, the longer the shoreline where the known meets the unknown.

- Ralph Washington Sockman

topic: Philosophy, Ocean, Islands, Shoreline, Science And Philosophy

In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chaparral, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness.

- Richard Louv

source: Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.202, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Nature, Curves, Needs, Shoreline

It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.

- Stephen Covey

source: Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.406, Mango Media Inc.

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Knowledge, Shoreline, Knowledge Wisdom

Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chapparal, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness. We require these patches of nature for our mental health and our spiritual resilience.

- Richard Louv

source: Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.202, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Spiritual, Curves, Space, Shoreline

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

- William Irwin Thompson

source: William Irwin Thompson (1996). “The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture”, p.87, Palgrave Macmillan

topic: Sea, Knowing, Islands, Shoreline

Throughout our history Americans have put their faith in God and no one can doubt that we have been blessed for it. The earliest settlers of this land came came in search of religious freedom. Landing on a desolate shoreline, they established a spiritual foundation that has served us ever since.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.268, Best Books on

topic: God, Spiritual, Religious, Shoreline, Settlers

There is a part of childhood that is childish, and a part that is sacred. Suddenly we are touching the sacred part -- running to the shoreline, feeling the first cold burst of water on our ankles, reaching into the tide to catch at shells before they ebb away from our fingers. We have returned to a world that is capable of glistening, and we are wading deeper within it.

- David Levithan

topic: Running, Water, Childhood, Shoreline

When I was 12, we moved from New Jersey to Florida. The Gulf of Mexico was literally my backyard. Every day, I could see the ocean. At low tide I went out and played in seagrass meadows that used to come right up to the shore, filled with tiny seahorses, pipefish and soft corals. There was so much life! But then I witnessed the change, the loss of the shoreline, the loss of the mangrove trees, the loss of the seagrass meadows. Shallow bay areas were turned into parking lots.

- Sylvia Earle

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Ocean, Loss, Florida, Shoreline, Bay Area

Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.

- James Hansen

source: James Hansen (2011). “Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth about the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity”, p.4, A&C Black

topic: Civilization, Climate, World, Shoreline

In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. It is like the quantum world, where the more we understand its formalism, the stranger that world becomes.

- Huston Smith

topic: Islands, Together, Realization, Shoreline

I'm not an aspiring rapper, I'm not a gang member, I'm not a dope dealer, I don't have multiple babies momma's. I am an American by choice, I am a son, I am a brother, I am a military service member, I am a man who has lost complete faith in the system, when the system betrayed, slandered, and libeled me. I lived a good life and though not a religious man I always stuck to my own personal code of ethics, ethos and always stuck to my shoreline and true North. I didn't need the US Navy to instill Honor, Courage, and Commitment in me but I thank them for re-enforcing it. It's in my DNA.

- Christopher Dorner

source: "Alleged cop-killer details threats to LAPD and why he was driven to violence" by Mallory Simon, www.cnn.com. February 9, 2013.

topic: Religious, Baby, Brother, Gang Members, Shoreline

The more you know, the more you owe.

- Luis J. Rodriguez

topic: Shoreline

I know this world is far from perfect. I am not the type to mistake a streetlight for the moon. I know our wounds are deep as the Atlantic. But every ocean has a shoreline and every shoreline has a tide that is constantly returning to wake the songbirds in our hands, to wake the music in our bones, to place one fearless kiss on the mouth of that new born river that has to run through the center of our hearts to find its way home.

- Andrea Gibson

topic: Running, Mistake, Ocean, Songbirds, Shoreline

The more you know, the more you see

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Shoreline

A poem, being an instance of language, hence essentially dialogue, may be a letter in a bottle thrown out to the sea with the-surely not always strong-hope that it may somehow wash up somewhere, perhaps on the shoreline of the heart. In this way, too, poems are en route: they are headed towards. Toward what? Toward something open, inhabitable, an approachable you, perhaps, an approachable reality. Such realities are, I think, at stake in a poem.

- Paul Celan

topic: Strong, Heart, Reality, Letter In A Bottle, Shoreline

Make time less precious. We are way too efficient, making use of every hour, every minute. When you were a kid, didn’t you just spend hours poking sticks in the mud, climbing trees and sitting in them, looking at shells and seaweed that washed up on the shoreline? Time was not precious then, we weren’t trying to stuff an accomplishment into every minute every day, we had time for thoughts and feelings. That was good!

- Caterina Fake

topic: Kids, Climbing, Accomplishment, Shoreline, Seaweed

Unlike the boundaries of the sea by the shorelines, the "ocean of air" laps at the border of every state, city, town and home throughout the world.

- L. Welch Pogue

topic: Ocean, Airplane, Home, Shoreline, Airplanes And Flying