Quotes About Unknowns

#1. Life is one big enigma. If you got to the bottom of it before the end of your lifetime, the rest of your life wouldn't be worth living, now would it? Where's the excitement in an existence with all the unknowns known?

Elle Casey

#2. The glamour's off. Almost any question you ask can be answered. It's only the questions that you didn't know to ask that remain, dancing the can-can behind your back. The unknown unknowns.

Mark Forsyth

#3. There have been many many times where the uncertainty of life has made me want to force roots into the soil I'm currently standing on - because I'd rather have roots in any soil - than none at all. I hate living with unknowns.

Katie Kiesler

#4. Of course there are unknowns. And the sooner Aurore begins to meet them, the sooner they will cease to be unknown. That is the point.

Cameron Dokey

#5. Too many forms of life - Too many unknowns - How couldn't you go crazy faced with such a magnitude?

Fabio F. Centamore

#6. The unknowns wasn't full of terrors, it was full of undiscovered advantages. Better to run toward something than from something.

Rachel Caine

#7. There are so many unknowns, and so many possibilities. Sometimes there are things you can say, and talking makes it better. But sometimes, there are no words.

E. Katherine Kottaras

#8. The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65)

Stephen Batchelor

#9. A lot of scientists on Earth think of things that they could do in zero g. Things like the way metals cure, for example, and the way fluids react in space can tell us a lot about some of the unknowns we have on Earth.

Kevin A. Ford

#10. In sailing, in weather, in life and death, answers are not endings and questions are not to be feared. The unknowns keep us moving forward.

Kaci Cronkhite

#11. I'm not saying you shouldn't pursue dreams and goals. Just don't forsake the present for the unknowns of the future. A lot of happiness is bypassed, overlooked, postponed to a time years from now that may never come. Don't bide your time and miss out on this moment for a tomorrow with no guarantee.

Kim Holden

#12. Link Wray and Gene Vincent ... two of the greatest unknowns of rock 'n' roll.

John Lennon

#13. There are things we know we know. . . . We know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know. - Donald Rumsfeld

Steven J. Wangsness

#14. You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there's nothing to position, calculate, or guess.

Delphine De Vigan

#15. In mathematics, in place of characters, you have variables or unknowns. If I'm trying to plot a theorem, I try to imagine these variables interacting with each other. The boundary of their interaction is the theorem.

Manil Suri

#16. It was a relief to inhabit someone else's life for a while, to get her personal issues for a brief respite. In a play, she knew exactly how all her character's problems would be resolved. No matter how the cast performed, the end turned out the same. No questions, no worries, no unknowns.

Alexandra Robbins

#17. When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don't know, do I know what I don't know I don't know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll - like nursery rhyme.

Errol Morris

#18. Just don't forsake the present for the unknowns of the future.

Kim Holden

#19. All unknowns, at first, at least, to me, until I, like Columbus, "discovered" them. Is voyeurism a form of imperialism?

Ann Rower

#20. Mobile didn't create more unknowns for web designers. It just forced us to recognize the unknowns that were already there.

Jeremy Keith

#21. There are too many unknowns in life to say you know what's going to happen.

Karen White

#22. When I got diagnosed, the more research I did about it - MS overall, as a subject, as a disease - there's a lot of misconceptions and there's a lot of unknowns about it, and there wasn't anyone out that was close to my age or close to anything like me out there.

Jack Osbourne

#23. There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.

Nate Silver

#24. A point contains more unknowns than anything else; it need but stir, move, and it may turn into thousands of curves, thousands of bodies. I

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#25. There are known knowns and known unknowns, but what we should be worried about most is the unknown unknowns.

Gary Marcus

#26. I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.

Bjork

#27. Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

Bryant H. McGill

#28. [My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality ... a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.

Robert Hayden

#29. Always, just beyond all these things, was the silver sea, the lace border around all land like the silence around sounds or the unknowns beyond all knowledge.

Rebecca Solnit

#30. From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.

Ahmed Zewail

#31. The idea that you can cross a dimension, or commune with the dead, or life on other planets ... these are the great unknowns. They will be debated as long as their is life. I think there's an inherent interest from people in what that stuff is.

James Roday

#32. A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program.

William Shatner

#33. Life involves a lot of unknowns.

S.L. Wallace

#34. We want progress in medicine to be clear and unequivocal, but of course it rarely is. Every new treatment has gaping unknowns - for both patients and society - and it can be hard to decide what do do about them.

Atul Gawande

#35. For everything that's known about Lyme disease, there are still an extraordinary number of unknowns in some fairly fundamental areas.

Vanessa Farnsworth

#36. Many of the big changes of the next 25 years will come from unknowns working in their bedrooms and garages...

Charles W. Leadbeater

#37. I do not need the Lord to heal me. What I need is the faith to trust him no matter what happens. In this, I have begun to realize that great faith is borne in the great unknowns of life.

Kasey Van Norman

#38. What people dont know about you people create. Imagination is a part of being human. They fill in the unknowns with assumptions and not facts. Every man and woman is a mystery unrevealed.

R.M. Engelhardt

#39. Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns.

Gever Tulley

#40. The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet.

Mark Twain

#41. It's the last frontier to conquer, other people, strangers, the jungle of their arms and legs, hair and skin, the smells and moans that is everybody you haven't done. The great unknowns. The last forest to devastate. Here's everything you've only imagined.

Chuck Palahniuk

#42. Film is much more of a brand business, whereas on Broadway, you can do complete unknowns and have hits.

Kevin McCollum

#43. For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.

Oren Peli

#44. Words have meaning beyond the obvious. Words have consequences beyond intentions. Civil words align risk and reward of such unknowns.

John R. Dallas Jr.

#45. Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field.

Jane Smiley

#46. It is precisely because the unknowns are so great and dangerous that we require some manner of faith to choose our path and to give us courage.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#47. There are endless unknowns, and no forecast of a century can be either complete or utterly correct.

George Friedman

#48. 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

#49. I was interested in big unknowns, and the brain is one of the biggest, so building tools that allow us to regard the brain as a big electrical circuit appealed to me.

Edward Boyden

#50. Whatever your fears, whatever the unknowns or the challenges in your life, God has promised to provide for you, to share His pleasure with you, to protect you, and to give you His enduring presence.

Nancy Leigh Leigh DeMoss

#51. An equation commonly contains one or more so-called unknowns, often represented by x, y, z, etc.

Stieg Larsson

#52. It was all about release, about letting go of the unknowns.
I was having a disabled child and that was that. There were no hidden truths to discover. I would not know anything about her birth, her survivability odds, all her ailments, until her life actually unfolded.

Ariana Carruth

#53. The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns.

Gretchen Mol

#54. Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move.

Tim O'Brien

#55. The ground shifted again into an ocean of unknowns, a dark current yanking at a fundamental law she'd forgotten: there was no truth without a lie.

Emma Raveling

#56. There are two unknowns in the World. The Poles and the Turks!

Albert Sorel

#57. There are known knowns, things we know that we know; and there are known unknowns, things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld

#58. many unknowns, and more than any of his other jobs, this one held a high risk of failure. No, he wouldn't

Catherine Coulter

#59. What I'm trying to say is this: there are things in this world that are better left as unknowns

Haruki Murakami

#60. I am looking for unknowns who are passionate and mission-based. But I don't try to tout the next great thing I want to get in front of, because I don't set that course. The entrepreneurs do that.

Jim Goetz

#61. Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.

Omar Khayyam

#62. There is no greater mystery than a love interest when you first met them - so much to learn and so many unknowns. What's her favorite food? What's she into? All the things that would eventually be made known in a relationship.

David Bowick

#63. Life is a walk through the forest. Don't fear the trees, fear what lurks behind them.

Richelle E. Goodrich