Top 100 Quotes About What We Don't Know
#1. You know what, we don't know diddley squat about brains and no one has a clue how these things work, so don't believe what anyone tells you.
Jeff Hawkins
#2. To honor life, we must be willing to grow through what we don't know yet, and outgrow what we know no longer fits us. We must be willing to give in to the process, moment by moment, realizing a new plot may be unfolding.
Iyanla Vanzant
#3. Remember what Mommy said about what to do when something scares you?" "Name it," she whispered. "Exactly." Her mother's smile softened. "If you give the monster a name, it takes away its power, because we're really just afraid of what we don't know. If
J.M. Darhower
#4. The Catholic hierarchy has become more conservative. What we don't know is whether [Catholic voters] will become increasingly conservative, or .. stay swing voters.
John Green
#5. To where? We don't know. To do what? We don't know either. No one tells us anything. We just follow orders.
Derrick Wolf
#6. We know a lot of things, but what we don't know is a lot more.
Edward Witten
#7. The right wing conservatives think it's a decision that you can be cured with some treatment and religion.//Manmade rewiring of a predisposition//Oh no here we go, America the brave still fears what we don't know//But we paraphrase a book written 3500 years ago, I don't know ...
Macklemore
#8. It's not what we don't know that hurts us, people say. It's what we believe is true that isn't that does the damage.
Melody Beattie
#9. We're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense.
Gary Shteyngart
#10. What we know might actually mask what we don't know and impede our ability to learn and perform. All
Liz Wiseman
#11. The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don't know, or already know and should take seriously.
Emmet Gowin
#12. Far more critical than what we know or what we don't know is what we don't want to know.
Eric Hoffer
#13. Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.
Lisette Model
#14. Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness.
Laozi
#15. Writing organizes and clarifies our thoughts. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own. Writing enables us to find out what we know-and what we don't know-about whatever we're trying to learn.
William Zinsser
#16. Sometimes what we don't know protects us. It can't hurt us if we don't know it.
C.C. Hunter
#17. As we gain information we are more likely to focus on what we don't know : Someone who knows the state capitals of 17 of 50 states may be proud of her knowledge. But someone who knows 47 may think of herself as not knowing 3 capitals
Chip Heath
#18. We can't teach what we don't know, and we can't lead where we can't go
Malcolm X
#19. We don't like what we don't know or understand. Parents don't like the thought of their kids embracing social media because they don't fully understand the benefits and dangers.
Amy Jo Martin
#20. Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, all our fear, all our fights, all our reunions, all of what we know about each other, all of what we don't know?
David Levithan
#21. I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.
Denzel Washington
#22. We tell lies when we are afraid ... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
Tad Williams
#23. We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.
Dorothea Lange
#25. Fiction has the ability to show us what we don't know and what doesn't happen.
Javier Marias
#27. It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
Will Rogers
#28. Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
Bertrand Russell
#29. It is part of our human nature to question what we know and what we don't know.
Brian Michael Good
#30. One thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover.
Socrates
#31. No matter how careful you planned or did your research, the unknowable things would rise up out of the deep and overturn everything. But that was what had drawn him in, wasn't it? The depths of what we don't know?
Sharon Guskin
#32. Assumptions are what we don't know we are making
Douglas Adams
#33. It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.
Josh Billings
#34. Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write what we don't know we know."
Andre Dubus
#35. The aim of the climb is not intellectual satisfaction. The aim is worship. God gets more honor when we worship on the basis of what we know about him than he gets if we worship on the basis of what we don't know.
John Piper
#36. It is false to say that what we don't know can't hurt us, especially when it comes to the Bible. If ever there were anything we need to know, it is the very Word of God. That said, what is in all likelihood worse than what we don't know about the Bible is what we do know that just isn't so.
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#38. We always know how the story ends. What we don't know is what happens along the way.
Ahdaf Soueif
#39. America the brave
Still fears what we don't know
Macklemore
#41. Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourselves. We need to believe in those things because if we can't be open to what we don't know, there's no hope for any of us.
Rachel Joyce
#42. We half to make our lives meaningful in spite of what we don't know.
Anne Rice
#43. We all fear what we don't know - it's natural.
Leo Buscaglia
#44. What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.
Fred W. Friendly
#45. We are so identified with who we think we are that it limits how we can be, determines how we live, and conditions how we react. As Mark Twain said, It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble, but what we are sure we know.
Lama Surya Das
#46. Oh happy he who still can hope in our day
to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error!
What we don't know is really what we need,
and what we know is of no use to us whatever!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#47. What we don't know is about Jeb Bush and cocaine. But we do know that he did once had his brother Florida on a silver platter.
Bill Maher
#48. We shall be better, braver, and
more active if we believe it right to
look for what we don't know.
Socrates
#49. By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery,
James Geary
#50. It's not what we don't know that hurts. It's what we know that ain't so.
Will Rogers
#52. Ah, the minutes twinkle in and out
And in and out come and go
One by one, none by none,
What we know, what we don't know.
Laura Riding Jackson
#53. Memorizing facts and then regurgitating them into carefully crafted words is not science people. It's intellectual bulimia. Real science happens when we explore what we don't know. The first law of understanding the human brain and the mind within, is to be an explorer.
Abhijit Naskar
#54. We fear what we don't know, or whatever seems like a mystery to us.
Andrea Barbosa
#55. What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
Isaac Newton
#56. All Knowledge is Divided into Three Domains: "What We Know", "What We Know That We Don't Know", and "What We Don't Know That We Don't Know."
Werner Erhard
#57. Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.
Tim Hunt
#58. We know what the clan is; we know how to fit into the band and the tribe. What we don't know is how to be alone. We don't know how to be free individuals. The
Steven Pressfield
#59. In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.
Haruki Murakami
#60. What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.
Mark Twain
#61. Fear keeps us weak, fear of what we don't know, and fear of what we do know.
Mark Lawrence
#62. The most exciting part of what I do is understanding the scale of what we don't know. There are just countless archaeological sites all over the world, and one of the most important and best ways of finding them is using digital technology.
Sarah Parcak
#63. We write about what we don't know about what we know ...
Grace Paley
#64. We are the Library," Coppelia pointed out. "What we don't know, we research.
Genevieve Cogman
#65. Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet
Alan Kay
#66. I guess it's a good thing that we don't know what we don't know; otherwise it would probably make a lot more of us a lot more insane.
Ray Palla
#67. Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know
Lincoln Steffens
#68. Why is it that what we do know can save us, but what we don't know can kill us?
T.A. Barron
#69. If we can't accept what we don't know, there really is no hope.
Rachel Joyce
#70. Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don't know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
John Ortberg
#71. If we don't learn from each others experience, we are forced to listen to people who have economic reasons to withhold critical information from us all. The other option is to wait for the government to tell us what their financial supporters want us to know.
Richard Diaz
#72. [...] it seems you don't understand that words are the labels we stick on things, not the things themselves, you'll never know what the things are really like, nor even what their real names are, because the names you gave them are just that, the names you gave them [...]
Jose Saramago
#73. Amy said, "So, you're making a flamethrower?"
"Amy, we gotta be prepared. We don't know what we'll find in that place, but for all we know it could be the Devil himself."
"David, what possible good is that thing gonna do?"
"Oh, no, you didn't hear me. I said it's a flamethrower." Girls.
David Wong
#74. Why do we go to all this trouble' Parker asked. 'Men don't notice anyway.'
'Because what we wear affects how we feel, how we act, how we move. And that they do notice. Especially the move. Get dressed, smoke the eyes. You'll know you look good so you'll feel good. You'll have a better time.
Nora Roberts
#75. Heroes aren't supposed to do bad things. That's what villains are for. So either the good supersedes the bad, or the bad makes it impossible to remember the good. We don't like it when such duality exists in one person. We don't want to know our heroes are human.
LZ Granderson
#76. Sometimes we don't know what's best until we're forced into it. Often you can be just as happy or even happier with less.
Peter Seidel
#77. You should really think about buying another new tractor. I hear the current models have air conditioning and Wi-Fi."
"What the fuck do we need Wi-Fi for out in the field?"
"Don't know. Cows might be into the beefcake of the month sites. You never know about them heifers
Mercy Celeste
#78. It's hard to stay on purpose if we don't know what our purpose is.
Sam Horn
#79. L.A. is such a real, active place. My mother was very into the core of the city. She worked in politics, and you have to know your territory. It's an active matrix; we're all parts of it, but people don't often stop to wonder what's going on.
Janet Fitch
#80. We live in this world of tweeting, and social media, and anti-social media, and all the rest, so no matter what you say, there is going to be what people say is a firestorm. I don't know what a firestorm is.
Al Michaels
#81. Somehow whether or not the war is winnable is beyond our scope, an irrelevant detail. We don't do it to win anymore; we do it because it's what we know how to do. Get ready to go. Get ready to come back. And the moments in between we mark on the calendar. It's our battle rhythm.
Angela Ricketts
#82. Nobodys life ever goes according to plan.
So why do we keep on planning?
Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become.
And fail.
I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.
Orson Scott Card
#83. The End
"I don't know what to say," he said.
"It's okay," she replied, "I know what we are - and I know what we're not.
Lang Leav
#84. What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.
Ray Charles
#85. We like things to manifest right away, and they may not. Many times, we're just planting a seed and we don't know exactly how it is going to come to fruition. It's hard for us to realize that what we see in front of us might not be the end of the story.
Sharon Salzberg
#86. When we think we have something to say we are usually wrong. We are fooling ourselves. Trip into discovery. Don't write what you know, discover something new.
Marie Howe
#87. Nights are the worst. You just don't know what it's like for me, trying not to think of [him] ... knowing that we're going to be apart for so long. It's pure torture.
Judy Blume
#88. I do think I'm terrific at giving advice. Although in our hearts we usually know what we should do. It's rare that you get in a situation in life where you don't know how to proceed. You know the thing you should do, but don't want to.
Paul F. Tompkins
#89. Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.
Parker Palmer
#90. The people who keep asking if they can't lead a decent life without Christ, don't know what life is about; if they did they would know that 'a decent life' is mere machinery compared with the thing we men are really made for.
C.S. Lewis
#91. I don't believe that the Earth's but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That's what the Bible says.
Paul Broun
#92. I'm very curious about David Bowie's new record [2016]. I'm very, very ... I'm just incredibly curious, I want to see what's happening with that. I don't really know who else is putting out records, we've had our heads buried working on ours. I haven't really been paying much attention lately.
Patrick Stump
#93. This band makes sure that we have whole sections of stuff that are free form so that they don't know what we are doing next, that is the fun part of playing. You are playing something that you haven't ever played before.
John Entwistle
#94. When a language die we don't know what we lose with language.
Patricia Ryan
#95. In my mind, there's nothing wrong with it. I don't instinctively know what's wrong with it. There is a language of the ghetto. There is a language of the barrio. And it's not good. There is an attitude. There is a behavior. There is a mindset and we wouldn't anybody to be stuck in it.
Rush Limbaugh
#96. It's embarrassing that we're in the 21st century and we don't even know what makes gravity work. I'm getting older and thinking maybe I should tackle more than the mundane. I may fail, but at least I will have tried.
Woody Norris
#97. We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.
Sheena Iyengar
#98. Rules of science." Alessandro shrugged his elegant shoulders. "And what are those? We don't even know how this works." He pointed to his head.
Magnus Flyte
#99. - Do you know what we mean by Cold War?
- War don't have no temperature.
Marlon James
#100. What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.
Paul Samuelson
