Top 100 Quotes About Unknown
#1. Instead of making myself write the book I ought to write, the novel that was expected of me, I conjured up the book I myself would have liked to read, the sort by an unknown writer, from another age and another country, discovered in an attic. ITALO CALVINO
Salman Rushdie
#2. In the face of the unknown - the always nagging uncertainty about whether, under complex circumstances, things will really be okay -
Atul Gawande
#3. The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy,
George R R Martin
#4. What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.
David Malouf
#5. 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
#6. To line only for some unknown future is superficial.
Abdul Kalam
#7. One Life With Many Names, Childhood, Boyhood, Manhood And Old, Then? Then! All Unknown, Uncertain Destination ...
Muhammad Imran Hasan
#8. It is all new and all the same. A hundred years. A day. Ten thousand moons. For them, each day indeed is brand new, full of possibility, the unknown: a wonderland.
Lorna Jane Cook
#9. Instead of bracing yourself for the perils of the unknown, embrace the joy that is here, in your present moment.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#10. Courage in the face of the unknown is an important quality in a wizard . . . very important.
J.K. Rowling
#11. When you follow the path of the unknown, you never know what you may find.
tv show- UFOs Really?
Sondra Faye
#12. You use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is the unknown is where I want to be.
Roni Horn
#13. I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.
Taylor Swift
#14. It is this breathtaking image [of] success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the importance of physics and math and, in many ways, to have that awe at exploration of the frontiers of the unknown.
Steve Jurvetson
#15. Villages were burning under unknown constellations, people were screaming, and that touch on his neck . . . that awful touch
Stephen King
#16. Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.
Bruce Catton
#18. Long exasperated by questions without answers, by answers without consequences, by truths which change nothing, we learn to become intoxicated by the mood of mystery itself, by the odor of the unknown. We are entranced by the subtle scents and wavering reflections of the unimaginable.
Thomas Ligotti
#19. I don't really trust ideas, especially good ones. Rather I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.
Robert Rauschenberg
#20. It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
V.S. Naipaul
#21. Forget about life, forget about worrying about right and wrong. Plunge into the unknown and the endless and find your place there!
Zhuangzi
#22. No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown?
Wayne Shorter
#23. Faith is throwing yourself into the arms of the unknown and trusting that you will be safe in the hands of that monster
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#24. We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.
James Montgomery Boice
#25. You will never know how courageous you are until you are willing to leave your comfort zone to leap into the unknown.
Theresa Lewis
#26. Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.
Anatole France
#28. Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory.
Angela Merkel
#29. Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.
Amos Oz
#30. Science is about exploring the unknown and cannot offer guarantees.
Virginia Postrel
#31. Fear of the unknown is a horror writer's best friend!
G.A. Minton
#32. But if you seek the truth you must approach the unknown. Lean into it. Wait for it to speak to you. Are you willing to pass that threshold?
Mark Frost
#33. The only thing that stops you from your success is the fear of the unknown
Thabiso Monkoe
#34. I like to be on the edge, on the cutting edge, or be into the unknown, into the territory where I have to depend on being in the moment and depending on my instincts.
Herbie Hancock
#35. The 'Renaissance' West Butchered the Rest.
If I had to choose between an erudite Aristotle and an unknown 'soulless' black slave I would choose the latter. The ascendancy of the West was on a heap of bodies of slaves and trampled humanity through colonization
Viktor Vijay Kumar
#36. Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you combine all these factors, you cannot create a capital market valuation of that activity.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#37. The alchemy that is friendship mixed with attraction is important. The alchemy that is two hearts, two minds, two lives, two particular laughs in silly melody is important.
And, it is yet unknown, as you are, to me.
Waylon H. Lewis
#38. To uncover new knowledge, and to find the truth, one must dare venture into the unknown.
Theodore Volgoff
#39. The soul is but senses catching fire,
Marvellous music of the body's lyre, -
The angel senses are the silver strings
Stirred by the breath of some unknown desire.
Richard Le Gallienne
#40. Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.
Martin Luther
#41. Elegance is necessarily unnatural, only achieveable at great expense. If you just do something, it won't be elegant, but if you do it and then see what might be more elegant, and do it again, you might, after an unknown number of iterations, get something that is very elegant.
Erik Naggum
#42. It is the mystery of the unknown
That fascinates us; we are children still
Wayward and wistful; with one hand we cling
To the familiar things we call our own,
And with the other, resolute of will,
Grope in the dark for what the day will bring
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#43. Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.
Robert C. Solomon
#44. There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices ... But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence?
Libba Bray
#45. Let's sum up: an unknown number of enemies with unknown capabilities, supported by a gang of madmen, packs of attack animals, and superhumanly intelligent pocket change.
Jim Butcher
#46. In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you.
David Boreanaz
#47. My heart, still full of her,
traveled over her face, and found her there no more ...
I had thought to myself that a woman unknown
had adopted by chance that voice and those eyes
and I let the chilly statue pass
looking athe skies
Alfred De Musset
#48. I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of indignation because of the generations of human beings who have struggled in poverty to build these altars to the unknown god.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#49. We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.
John Piper
#50. Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means ... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can.
Rupert Sheldrake
#51. A writer seeks to discover a lucid state of creative consciousness uncoiling from a boule of internal disequilibrium and dutifully attempts to bridge that cavernous divide between the known and the unknown and articulate raw truths.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#52. Do not puzzle your mind with unknown and unknowable,
Ajit Kumar Jha
#53. Everywhere man is in disguise! Who is who is unknown! Try to enter the mask and find out who the man inside really is!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#54. Realizations are strange things. They are composed outside of the conscious self, they are the ends of paths we cannot tread in our waking minds, and for this reason, the most shocking realizations may stab across one's mind, and yet be gone in an instant, fleeting, known-and-unknown.
Moira Katson
#55. They passed lands that had no name, where fens of mirror pools stretched into unknown distances, thousands of fragments of sky sprinkled across this bastard offspring of earth and sea, lonely birds calling out over the desolation, and Yarvi breathed deep the salt chill and longed for home.
Joe Abercrombie
#56. Courage you have, and the knowledge that we are all pilgrims together, wending through unknown country, home.
Giovanni Giocondo
#57. People who look through keyholes are apt to get the idea that most things are keyhole shaped Author unknown
Lynelle Clark
#58. We were the first Fascists, when we had 100,000 disciplined men, and were training children, Mussolini was still an unknown. Mussolini copied our Fascism.
Marcus Garvey
#59. The nagual gives you the unknown; it gives you reality; it leads you to the totality of yourself.
Frederick Lenz
#60. Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.
Horace
#61. We are here to know the unknown, love everyone, feel the joy of life and then we parish with infinite happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#62. Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#63. The big, bad unknown is only that until it is known. Then you look back and wonder what all the fuss and worry was about.
S.A. Tawks
#64. As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack. Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.
Alan Cranston
#65. Every movie is unknown.
Ang Lee
#66. The initiate, however, uses a symbol-system differently; he uses it as an algebra by means of which he will read the secrets of unknown potencies; in other words, he uses the symbol as a means of guiding thought out into the Unseen and Incomprehensible.
Dion Fortune
#68. I feel like a different person since my mum passed away, like I'm driving a ship with my husband alongside me and we're leading these four children into unknown waters.
Stella McCartney
#69. When we push life, life pushes back. When we let go, things begin to flow ... direction unknown though !
Wali
#70. You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
Hermann Hesse
#71. From fear of the unknown, both horns and wings have grown.
Chris Murphy
#72. Women, even more than the working class, is the great unknown quantity of the race.
Keir Hardie
#73. By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.
Alan Watts
#74. We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.
Anne Lamott
#75. No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. - Robert Green Ingersoll
Jerry A. Coyne
#76. [T]he rare earth elements perplex us in our researches, baffle us in our speculations, and haunt us in our very dreams. They stretch like an unknown sea before us mocking, mystifying and murmuring strange revelations and possibilities.
William Crookes
#77. Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and beauty of the world. And it's breathtaking.
Carlo Rovelli
#78. The beginning of a project or anything is what makes me feel vulnerable. How to take that first step. And the ending of anything. How to release what you know and leap into the unknown.
Regina Taylor
#79. My own observation is: lovers don't surrender to each other, they surrender to something unknown that exists between them. They surrender to love - call it the 'god of love' - they both surrender to the god of love. Hence nobody's ego is fulfilled by your surrender; both the egos disappear in love.
Rajneesh
#80. Shall we educate ourselves in what is known, and then casting away all we have acquired, turn to ignorance for aid to guide us among the unknown?
Michael Faraday
#81. The woman had followed every single move of the Prince's fingers on her hand and felt very fine when the guy put them on the paper. What she felt was unknown to her, a whole new sensation.
And dangerous.
It was desire. She wanted Galadir, but in a horrible and disgusting way.
Chiara Cilli
#82. Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.
Denise Levertov
#83. To remain virile in the light demands the audacity of a mad ignorance: letting oneself catch fire, screaming with joy, expecting death - because of an unknown, unknowable presence; becoming love and blind light oneself, attaining the perfect incomprehension of the sun.
Georges Bataille
#84. Ah, I see. You don't know much about us and the unknown equals the barbaric, the primitive. Although it is you lot who are ignorant.
Andrew Ashling
#86. The soul - your soul - knows all there is to know all the time. There's nothing hidden to it, nothing unknown. Yet knowing is not enough. The soul seeks to experience.
Neale Donald Walsch
#87. The unknown is a gift, a promise, a journey worth more than its destination.
J.K. Rock
#88. Maybe we all want to burn off across the horizon, into space, perhaps, to take off into some unknown territory and meet ourselves out there.
Berlie Doherty
#89. Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.
Philip Roth
#90. There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever affords.
Edith Durham
#91. There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.
Richard Feynman
#92. I will not die, it's the world that will end.
paraphrase of unknown philosopher
Ayn Rand
#93. What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
Voltaire
#94. The fear of the unknown was eclipsed by the gladness that came of taking action, of doing something rather than waiting, of following what seemed to be the call of my life.
Tracy L. Higley
#95. I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment.
Roberto Matta
#96. Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence.
Richard P. Feynman
#97. Einstein occasionally used "God" as a metaphor for the unknown fundamental laws of nature.
Steven Weinberg
#98. Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
Ouida
#99. Now it is time that we are going, I to die and you to live; but which of us has the happier prospect is unknown to anyone but God
Socrates
#100. ... lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and ... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to "walk about" into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
Wassily Kandinsky