Top 100 Quotes About The Unknown
#1. Not moving because things are unfamiliar-and you haven't bothered to learn how to operate on them-I think is really a crime. The uncertain is the unknown and the unknown is the future, and you cannot predict the future. But the unfamiliar? You can learn how to operate in that.
Orit Gadiesh
#3. What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.
Jenny McCarthy
#4. despair of ever making it out of slavery and the slum. Psychologists often see the same resistance to escaping in women who are in abusive relationships. They may live in fear and pain, but they refuse to leave the abuser because they are more fearful of the unknown.
Nick Vujicic
#5. Maintaining an open mind is essential when exploring the unknown, but allowing one's brains to fall out in the process is inadvisable.
Dean Radin
#6. Alone also with the horizon. The waves come from the invisible East, patiently, one by one; they reach us, and then, patiently, set off again for the unknown West, one by one. A long voyage, with no beginning and no end ...
Albert Camus
#7. The unknown has undone many a president, and no matter the popularity of an Oval Office occupant, any and all presidents are vulnerable. Of course, one thing that seems to set Obama part from his recent predecessors is his ability to keep an inner calm about tough issues.
Chuck Todd
#8. A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet the unknown and open your mind. - Nakajima (Gin no Saji)
Hiromu Arakawa
#9. Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk.
And it masks itself as procrastination.
Lisa Anderson
#10. Art is a form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world of adventure, of stories, of literature itself?
Michael Chabon
#11. You venture into the unknown land because that is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not what you want to do, it is something you have to do.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#12. I remembered what it was like to die-the pain, the fear, the doubt, and the unknown. Somehow I had cheated death once. Now I was about to try again.
Rick Chiantaretto
#13. Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't you hear Muad'Dib? If certainty is knowing absolutely an absolute future, then that's only death disguised! Such a future becomes now!
Frank Herbert
#14. The reason that ego and love are not compatible comes down to this: you cannot take your ego into the unknown, where love wants to lead. If you follow love, your life will become uncertain, and the ego craves certainty.
Deepak Chopra
#15. The word is clear only to the kind who on peak or plain, from dark northern ice-fields to the hot wet jungles, through all wine and want, through lies and unfamiliar truth, dark or light, are governed by the unknown gods, and though each man knows the law, no man may give tongue to it.
Stephen Crane
#16. The Elven Way passes beyond the fields of the known into the forest of the unknown, illuminated by the glow of the elves.
The Silver Elves
#17. This is a war of the unknown warriors; but let all strive without failing in faith or in duty, and the dark curse of Hitler will be lifted from our age.
Winston Churchill
#18. 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
#19. When the unknown becomes known, we lose something very big: The beauty of mystery!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#20. Many countries in the world do not allow GMO crops because of the known health risks and the unknown consequences when it comes to human consumption.
John Bergman
#21. So you could value your own life," replied the Titan. "Before that you were under the gods' thumbs, doing their bidding without caring if you lived or died. When you could see that life was worth living by your fear of the unknown that was death, then you could really make things happen.
Jasper Fforde
#22. Days and rivers are the same; they both flow to the unknown oceans!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#23. Elizabeth Blackwell, "with a very slender purse and few introductions of any value," found herself in the "unknown world" of Paris. What made her situation different from that of other American visitors was her profession. She was a doctor - the first American woman to have become a doctor.
David McCullough
#24. And if other old men must be willing, at the end, to push up off their deathbed and adventure out into the unknown, how much more willing must that man be whose whole life has been just such a daily exercise of adventuring, even in the stillness of his own garden? I mean, the poet.
David Malouf
#25. The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.
Frederic Chopin
#26. ... the known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow.
Jasper Fforde
#27. The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and no end ... when we try to measure something which is not measurable, we only get caught in words.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#28. We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting, fascinating fanaticising, explosive and outrageous: the renewal of the unknown.
Asger Jorn
#29. Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known.
John Dewey
#30. I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond ...
Grandma Moses
#31. When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible
Deepak Chopra
#32. Between whatever has happened already and whatever is to come hovers an invisible borderland, the known on one side and the unknown on the other.
Anthony Doerr
#33. Always put the unknown future into the hands of the known God. He has the key it will take to unlock your locked doors.
Israelmore Ayivor
#34. When you venture into the unknown stumble and fall, never give up hope for the lord is always with you.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#35. A camel that always moves with the camel caravan cannot discover the beauties of the unknown oases!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#36. The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings
Lincoln Steffens
#37. The philosopher had rescued her. The unknown letter writer had saved her from the triviality of everyday existence.
Jostein Gaarder
#38. I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
Jim Morrison
#39. She'd been to Narnia, Wonderland, Hogwarts, Dictionopolis. She had tessered, fallen through the rabbit hole, crossed the ice bridge into the unknown world beyond.
Anne Ursu
#40. When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.
William H. Hunt
#41. The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.
Simon Sinek
#42. It's the fear of the unknown that we're both wrapped up in.
Colleen Hoover
#43. The unknown is just as real as the known and must be made to look so.
Graham Sutherland
#44. What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown.
Henry David Thoreau
#45. The deletion of logic is through....
Love
Acceptance
Forgiveness
Compassion
Understanding
Faith in the unknown
Present Moment Living
Conscious Breathing
Matthew Donnelly
#46. I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
Sylvia Earle
#47. The ultimate aim of all science is to penetrate the unknown.
Walter Reisch
#48. As you walk through the valley of the unknown, you will find the footprints of Jesus both in front of you and beside you.
Charles Stanley
#49. To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.
Robert Bly
#51. Those who go ahead provide a little light into the unknown.
John Densmore
#52. Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.
Carl Sagan
#53. Creative living, or the life of a creator, seems like a leap into the unknown only because "normal life" is rigid and traumatized.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#54. In the realm of the unknown, difficulties must be viewed as a hidden treasure! Usually, the more difficult, the better. It's not as valuable if your difficulties stem from your own inner struggle. But when difficulties arise out of increasing objective resistance, that's marvelous!
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#55. A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.
Roy H. Williams
#56. Lost again
Broken and weary
Unable to find my way
Tail in hand
Dizzy and clearly unable to
Just let this go
I am surrendering to gravity and the unknown
Catch me heal me lift me back up to the sun
I choose to live
A Perfect Circle
#57. You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.
Frank Gehry
#58. Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.
Frederick Buechner
#59. The key to enjoying the journey is being open to the unknown
Kristine Carlson
#60. The squeak of oarlocks comes over the lake water
A woman's shriek assaults the ear
While above, in the sky, inured to everything,
The moon looks on with a mindless leer
("The Unknown Lady")
Alexander Blok
#61. To see what's beyond the horizon, we must paddle out, leave our familiar shores, and venture into the unknown.
Khoo Swee Chiow
#62. The Truth is the unknown from moment to moment, our minds must be always alert with full attention, free from prejudices, misconceptions, so it can be really receptive.
Samael Aun Weor
#63. Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
Stephen Gardiner
#64. Did you design the door?'
'No.'
'Who did? The Unknown Designer?
Brandon Mull
#65. The meaning of bravery is more than the act of being strong, it is also about letting go of what you cannot control and trusting the unknown.
Steven Cuoco
#66. I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
Bram Stoker
#67. Fear not the unknown. For it is a sea of possibilities.
Tom Althouse
#68. Stop being so fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world.
Mary Balogh
#69. Magic was merely the unknown, a wild thing undefined by logic or reason.
J.D. Lakey
#70. There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who have never risked an exploration of the unknown, who have never attempted the kind of creativity of which men and women are potentially capable.
Betty Friedan
#72. There's a constant tension in climbing, and really all exploration, between pushing yourself into the unknown but trying not to push too far. The best any of us can do is to tread that line carefully.
Alex Honnold
#73. Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
Eudora Welty
#74. Curiosity can only be called "fear of the unknown" only when you are in your comfort zone.
Jury Nel
#75. All three of them looked at each other then burst out laughing, the tension from the unknown dissolving away. Tears leaked from their eyes as their laughter grew.
Carrie Ann Ryan
#76. It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that mostly freaks me out. I don't know the name of that fear, but I know I've got it, the fear of the unknown.
Carrie Jones
#77. Everything new troubles us. Life catches us unawares and obliges us to journey towards the unknown, even when we do not want to, even when we do not need to.
Paulo Coelho
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. I'm interested in man's march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my idea of a good time. Neither is a fiery crash with the vomit hovering over me.
William Shatner
#81. I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.
Terrence Howard
#82. The unknown is only that which has not yet been revealed ... The unfound but a journey not ended
L.G. Space
#83. The only way to find peace is to face the unknown and trust that God has heard your tears.
Shannon L. Alder
#84. I was quite unbalanced with that instinct for the strange and the unknown which had made me a wanderer upon earth and a haunter of far, ancient, and forbidden places.
H.P. Lovecraft
#85. The one thing man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by a World Government, a New World Order.
Henry A. Kissinger
#86. Faith, to be faith, must center around something that is not known. Faith, to be faith, must go beyond that for which there is confirming evidence. Faith, to be faith, must go into the unknown. Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness.
Boyd K. Packer
#87. Now he had to decide
what was the right thing to do? Something that required courage. Something that was frightening, because the unknown was lying in wait on the other side.
Andreas Eschbach
#88. Poetry is an art of expressing the unknown music of our inner feelings and emotions in our known language.
Debasish Mridha
#89. Skirts of the unknown, and the white men rushing out of a tumble-down hovel, with great gestures
Joseph Conrad
#90. With a novel, there is no hurrying it. You're constantly walking into the unknown.
Tobias Hill
#91. So now i know. I fear the unknown so deeply that I'de rather repeat the same heart-breaking pattern than face something or someone i can't predict.
Valerie Frankel
#92. Take a leap into the unknown. I'll be here to catch you.
Stephanie John
#93. If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
Margaret Mead
#94. When someone is walking beside us, we have more courage to walk into the unknown and to risk the dark and messy places in our journey.
Karen Kimsey-House
#95. I think there's so much we don't know and the unknown in the ocean; every 10 years or so, we find some fossil that's been there before mankind.
Ving Rhames
#96. A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.
Criss Jami
#97. But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#98. 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
#99. When you loved someone, you couldn't hold back. Love was a leap into the unknown, not a cautious dipping of the toe.
Martina Boone
#100. It is also for stepping into the unknown," Claudia said, "when it would be easier to cling what it familiar and safe.
Mary Balogh
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