Top 100 Most Unknown Quotes
#1. It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
Tacitus
#3. The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice
Mark Horton
#5. Switzerland is a land where crime is virtually unknown, yet most Swiss males are required by law to keep in their homes what amounts to a portable, personal machine gun.
Tom Clancy
#6. The unknown is the most frightening and mysterious thing, especially in the modern world where we can practically Google anything and find out the back story. I think to have that element of mystery [in your movie], it almost creates a frustration that is closer to real life.
Larry Fessenden
#7. She is a mermaid, but approach her with caution- her mind swims at a depth that most would drown it.
Unknown
#8. most of the books available in Kindle Unlimited are from self-publishers, and most of them are unknown to you.
Max Blackwell
#9. I've been visiting Thailand for more than 20 years but didn't fall in love with it until I visited Phuket Town in Phuket. The northern part of Phuket is one of the most fascinating places I've ever been, and largely unspoilt and unknown.
Tony Parsons
#10. The uncreated is a vast, empty space. This emptiness is so scary that most hold on to what they know, making minor adjustments to what they understand, unable to move on to something unknown.
Ed Catmull
#11. It's the thoughts in our head that terrify us the most
Unknown
#12. Armed with faith, determination and perseverance anyone can achieve there goals. The power of the human mind is the most powerful force in the universe, what we conceive with integrity, hard work, education and a positive spirit we can accomplish.
Unknown
#13. Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die.
John Masefield
#14. We tend not to choose the unknown which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. And yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching. In so many ways this
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#15. Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.
Philippe Halsman
#17. Tom sang most of the time, but it was chiefly nonsense, or else perhaps a strange language unknown to the hobbits, an ancient language whose words were mainly those of wonder and delight.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#18. However, the path of God is unknown and deep are the waters. Often do we see what is pleasing, take a sudden turn of providence, that deprives even the most Godly of their happiness. We should not fear theses changes and trust that all things work for the greater good.
Nancy B. Brewer
#19. No one ever volunteers for change. Even when the situation they're in makes them unhappy, most people would rather stick with the unhappy they know, than take a chance on something unknown.
Alyson Noel
#20. One cannot be successful on visible figures alone ... the most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable, but successful management must nevertheless take account of them.
W. Edwards Deming
#21. Although most of us are complacent in our assumption that science is gaining on the unknown, scientists are acknowledging that man's own brain is complex beyond any hope of complete understanding.
Marilyn Ferguson
#22. It will take an unprecedented act of courage, on a grand scale. You may have to do something virtually unknown in the annals of human history ... You may have to give up some of your most sacred beliefs ... let me make something clear.
Neale Donald Walsch
#23. I took my fear to literal heights and went skydiving over a year ago. It was in that moment, gazing over the precipice of the plane, when I realized what scared me the most, the unknown.
Kathryn Budig
#24. Salander leaned back against the pillow and followed the conversation with a smile. She wondered why she, who had such difficulty talking about herself with people of flesh and blood, could blithely reveal her most intimate secrets to a bunch of completely unknown freaks on the Internet.
Stieg Larsson
#25. He [Nicolaus Steno] told the audience, Beautiful is what we see. More beautiful is what we understand. Most beautiful is what we do not comprehend.
Mira Bartok
#26. If it were now to die,
'Twere now to be most happy, for I fear
My soul hath her content so absolute
That no other comfort, like to this
Succeeds in unknown fate
William Shakespeare
#27. The feeling she has is most unexpected. The oddest thing. She feels no distress or worry. Instead, she senses a dim, faint feeling that rises from some unknown place in her heart, rising slowly and blossoming into something that she might call relief.
Janice Y.K. Lee
#28. Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.
Spider Robinson
#29. If you can make your name and your works very famous and at the same time can succeed in making yourself much unknown, you are definitely the most intelligent celebrity!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#30. If you have to sit the whole evening with the most famous person in the world and he is a goddamn bore, you will want to run away and if you sit with a person who's completely unknown, but he's fascinating, you are delighted.
Emilio Pucci
#31. The most beautiful eyes are those that seek beauty in others.
Unknown
#32. Blaine, the scariest part about love isn't love itself. It's letting go and plunging into the unknown. It's trusting someone with the very most sacred part of your heart. It's allowing yourself to feel something foreign and uncharted, despite how much it terrifies the hell out of you
S.L. Jennings
#33. It is therefore necessary to prepare the imminent and inevitable identification of man with the motor, facilitating and perfecting an incessant exchange of intuition, rhythm, instinct and metallic discipline, quite utterly unknown to the majority of humanity and only divined by the most lucid mind.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
#34. One of the most exciting intellectual moments of my career was my 1948 discovery of Knut Wicksell's unknown and untranslated dissertation, 'Finanztheoretische Untersuchungen,' buried in the dusty stacks of Chicago's old Harper Library.
James M. Buchanan
#35. The most interesting - in fact, inspiring - people I met there [Porto Alegre] are those who remain nameless: representatives of the international campesino movement, the East Timorese delegation, ... - the usual heroes, who disappear, unknown, apart from the consequences of their work.
Noam Chomsky
#36. Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are unknown by most persons; thus the majority of parents, without knowing it and without intending it, give very bad examples to their children.
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
#37. The most sincere feelings are the ones hardest to be expressed by words. - Unknown
Zane
#38. To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity ...
Eli Siegel
#39. Most people talk about fear of the unknown, but if there is anything to fear, it is the known.
Deepak Chopra
#40. There are known knowns and known unknowns, but what we should be worried about most is the unknown unknowns.
Gary Marcus
#41. Family is a Blessing, that we have been giving, which supports us when we most need it
Unknown
#42. Neutrality is the most dangerous way to deal with things in life but intervention is the way forward to learn how to tackle the unknown.
Euginia Herlihy
#43. Mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently
F Scott Fitzgerald
#44. MTV has always given artists a platform to get their stories and music out to their fans and this series reveals the unknown side of T.I.-one of the world's greatest artists at the most precarious time in his life.
T.I.
#45. Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself ... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation of their home.
Gloria Steinem
#46. I knew I seemed a fairly unlikely candidate for an adventure into the unknown. And secretly I doubted that I had what it took, whatever it took, to head off alone to a country most people had never heard of. In light of this, my determination to go puzzled me.
Jamie Zeppa
#47. Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing.
Tony Robbins
#48. Amongst the many trials to which the human mind is subjected, that of holding intercourse, real or imaginary, with the world of spirits: of finding itself alone with a being terrific and awful, whose nature and power are unknown, has been justly considered the most severe.
Joanna Baillie
#49. There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
Benjamin Franklin
#50. It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.
Harold Brodkey
#51. Most people are fragile. They're fragile in the sense that they're afraid of the unknown, so they cling to each other. They cling to families, traditions, ways of seeing life that protect them from the immensity of the unknown
Frederick Lenz
#52. most true acts of heroism - reflections of one's deepest nature - remain unknown to the hero.
Boyd Varty
#53. My unique path through life has led me, however, to fear known threats but seldom the unknown, while most people fear both.
Dean Koontz
#54. IN Incognito the neuroscientist David Eagleman proposes that we are unknown to ourselves: Most of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control.
Nick Flynn
#55. Often, our most rewarding dreams are staring us right in the face, but for some reason we focus on how hard things are, how we are scared of the unknown and what would happen if we failed.
Joel Brown
#56. I'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate ... And I'd like to have the most enormous library, and I'd like to think that I could read those books forever and forever, and die unlamented, unknown, unsung, unhonored - and packed with information.
Richard Francis Burton
#57. The most painful love there is, is the love left unshown
A love that cannot be expressed, affection left unknown
The love that withholds touching,afraid of what it would say
And the most painful thing about unexpressed love is..,
it never fades away
Susan Polis Schutz
#58. Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.
Robert Kennedy
#59. To most people God is an inference, not a reality. He is a deduction from evidence which they consider adequate; but He remains personally unknown to the individual.
A.W. Tozer
#60. People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.
Idries Shah
#61. Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.
D.H. Lawrence
#62. Our belief that a person takes part in an unknown life which his or her love would allow us to enter is, of all that love demands in order to come into being, what it prizes the most, and what makes it care little for the rest.
Marcel Proust
#63. I started in the P.A. world and craft service and storyboard artist, with the eye on the prize of directing. When I was directing second unit on Babel, I ended up casting most of the unknown parts. In these weird circles, I was this guy who found these kids on the streets.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
#64. Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, the most helpless and diseased, which in others are luxuries merely, and in others still entirely unknown.
Henry David Thoreau
#65. The spiritual journey involves going beyond hope and fear, stepping into unknown territory, continually moving forward. The most important aspect of being on the spiritual path may be to just keep moving.
Pema Chodron
#66. The pro-E.U. campaign is all too likely to be based on a fear of the unknown because in most people's lifetime, we have never been out of the E.U.
Nigel Lawson
#68. The most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.
Aldo Leopold
#69. If you are unknown, you can work better! Deserted soils of the mountains create the most beautiful flowers!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#70. Washington's address is virtually unknown today and has not been seen in most American history textbooks in nearly four decades. Perhaps it is because of all the religious warnings Washington made in his 'Farewell Address.'
David Barton
#71. Better to head off into the unknown than stay here, where death was most certain
James Rollins
#72. Isn't that wonderful? That feeling of not knowing too much about something ... Incomplete information ... Endless possibilities ... When you don't know much about something, it's the most exciting sensation.
-Kutsnetz in TALUS
Erol Ozan
#73. The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.
Raheel Farooq
#74. The most wonderful thing, Mary, is that you and I are always walking together, hand in hand, in a strangely beautiful world, unknown to other people. We both stretch one hand to receive from Life - and Life is generous indeed.
Kahlil Gibran
#75. Much healing can occur through the sexual act with a person you love and trust if the two of you can stay with each other during your most vulnerable moments. You enter into a sacred space, this unknown territory, from which you'll emerge into new and unexpected states of being.
Alexandra Katehakis
#76. There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that it can not be planned or programmed. On the contrary it consists of surprises and appears many times in the most unexpected places.
Bengt I. Samuelsson
#77. Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and security, material comfort and knowledge that were unknown to the elites of the wealthiest and most powerful societies in earlier times.
Ross Garnaut
#78. There are so many previously unknown sites and structures all over the world. And I think most importantly what satellites help to show us is we've actually only found a fraction of a percent of ancient settlements and sites all over the world.
Sarah Parcak
#80. The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.
David Crystal
#81. Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.
Hannah Kent
#82. A rich man is not one who has the most, but one who needs the least.
Unknown
#83. God resides most strongly and evidently where science has not yet progressed to go ... And if this is true then it follows that God resides everywhere and in everything.
Terryl L. Givens
#84. ...and he was struck again by the religious revernce of even the most unworldly American women for the social advantages of dress.
'It's their armour,' he thought, 'their defence against the unknown, and their defiance of it.
Edith Wharton
#85. The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#86. It is probable that two proposed unknown rations are incommensurable because if many unknown rations are proposed it is most probable that any [one] would be incommensurable to any [other].
Nicole Oresme
#87. One of the most exiting things about being pregnant is that I just am accepting the complete unknown; it's a complete mystery and miracle.
Natalie Portman
#88. The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.
Henry David Thoreau
#89. Though American scenery is destitute of many of those circumstances that give value to the European, still it has features, and glorious ones, unknown to Europe...the most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wildness
Thomas Cole
#90. Unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or
F Scott Fitzgerald
#91. Me: Everyone got a bad grade on that.
Parent: We're not talking about everyone we're talking about you.
Me: This is bourgeois individualism in its most dangerous form.
Unknown
#92. Ego likes comfort zones, safety, familiarity, boundaries, limits, a god who stays put in a box, and the known vs. the unknown. Ego can be a wimp. Unlike what most people believe, ego is not about too much confidence. Ego is about not enough confidence - confidence in the divine part of ourselves.
Janet Rebhan
#93. The only exercise most people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, sidestepping responsibility, and pushing their luck. - UNKNOWN
Hal Elrod
#94. From tender youth we are told by father and teacher that betrayal is the most heinous offense imaginable. But what is betrayal? ... Betrayal means breaking ranks and breaking off into the unknown. Sabina knew of nothing more magnificent than going off into the unknown.
Milan Kundera
#95. The most difficult part of being a mother was to observe the mistakes of one's children: the foolish loves, the desperate solitude and alienation, the lack of will, the gullibility, the joyous and naive leaps into the unknown, the ignorance, the panicky choices and the utter determination.
David Bergen
#96. Soetsu Yanagi, in the "Unknown Craftsman", writes, "Man is most free when his tools are proportionate to his needs." For example, for optimal productivity, a carpenter needs woodworking tools and an environment conducive to his work, not a steam shovel or army tank.
Jeff Davidson
#97. The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.
W. Edwards Deming
#98. Hook always carried about his person a dreadful drug, blended by himself of all the death-dealing rings that had come into his possession. These he had boiled down into a yellow liquid quite unknown to science, which was probably the most virulent poison in existence. Five
J.M. Barrie
#99. There are plenty of things that are unknown, but are assumed reasonably to exist, even in the most basic sciences. Maybe 90 percent of the mass-energy in the universe is called "dark," because nobody knows what it is.
Noam Chomsky
#100. Our lives, I've learned, don't simply proceed nicely and directly from "birth" to "death." Instead, I see each one of us as traveling a most curious and branching-out or circuitous route, one that is creative in ways that are both known and, I'm sure now, unknown. Ah,
Jane Roberts
