Top 25 Terra Incognita Quotes
#1. If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be read. But a writer will work anyway, as I do, and as I have, in part to explore this terra incognita, this dangerous ground I seem to need to risk.
Frederick Busch
#2. The idea of the Bible as a divine guidebook, a map for getting through the terra incognita of life, is our golden calf. It's a substitute for the wilderness wandering that the life of faith necessarily entails.
Timothy Beal
#3. Dianetics is an adventure. It is an exploration into Terra Incognita, the human mind, that vast and hitherto unknown realm half an inch back of
our foreheads.
L. Ron Hubbard
#4. Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
Umberto Eco
#5. A boy is content to be made into a civil man by caning, or any one of a number of other stratagems, but a girl, being disqualified by Nature, as it were, from such physical brutality, must remain forever something of a terra incognita. Don't you think?
Alan Bradley
#6. Tisn't any need for you't'know. Even without you knowin', you function as yourself. That's your black box. In other words, we all carry around this great unexplored 'elephant graveyard' inside us. Outer space aside, this is truly humanity's last terra incognita
Haruki Murakami
#7. We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote triumphs of the abstract intellect, seem to carry us into a region different from our own-to be in a terra incognita of pure reasoning, to cast a chill on human glory.
Walter Bagehot
#8. Only by a frank discussion of the very details of dying can we best deal with those aspects that frighten us the most. It is by knowing the truth ... that we rid ourselves of that fear of the terra incognita of death.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#9. The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#10. There is, however, no universal recipe for scientific advance. It is a matter of groping forward into terra incognita of the outer world by means of methods which should be adapted to the circumstances.
Reinout Willem Van Bemmelen
#11. I was spinning, tipsy, teetering on the edge of being wasted on Whiskey. I'd dreamed of kissing Jamie so many times, but nothing could compare to how it really felt - his hands on me, so strong, his mouth skilled and passionate.
Kandi Steiner
#12. Back from where? you're not going out again and leaving me here are you?? Holy Hercules I sound like somebody's wife
Ruth Downie
#13. Bruce Sutter has been around for a while and he's pretty old. He's thirty-five years old, that will give you some idea of how old he is.
Ron Fairly
#14. I loved the bike because it gave me some measure of independence that I did not have.
Paul F. Tompkins
#15. A person who gossips & talks too much may not suffer from Bipolar Disorder but may suffer from Verbal Diarrhea.
Timothy Pina
#16. Be wise like water and adapt, adjust, and appreciate whomever you are with and wherever you are.
Debasish Mridha
#19. Remember, Pia," he whispers. "Perfect is as perfect does.
Jessica Khoury
#20. Divorce is the price people play for playing with matches.
Evan Esar
#21. I seem to remember sitting on a golden bench, and she started chattering about the sunset, or something. She seemed quite happy so I let her get on with it. Then she got hold of my hand and asked me what I was thinking about. So I said, "The treatment of anal fistulae".
Ruth Downie
#23. You're perceived as being a success if you find a job in some big city and work with hundreds of other people and draw a paycheck every month.
Jerry Moran
#24. Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.
Jon Scieszka
#25. Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
Jules Verne
