The Known Quotes

#1. You could mix the known, but you couldn't create the strange out of nothing.

Hugh Howey

#2. I'm not a religious man ... I find I am a fan of science. I believe in science. A humility before the facts. I find that a moving and beautiful thing. And belief in the unknown I find less interesting. I find the known and the knowable interesting enough.

Hugh Laurie

#3. To be a leader you have to jump into the ocean of uncertainty and lead the followers toward the known or unknown destination.

Debasish Mridha

#4. To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

David Brooks

#5. To approach the badlands is to find a gap in the known and expected world.

Robert Kroetsch

#6. But doubt is a crucial to faith as darkness is to light. Without one, the other has no context and is meaningless. Faith is, by definition, uncertainty. It is full of doubt, steeped in risk. It is about matters not of the known, but of the unknown.

Carter Heyward

#7. Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known.

Anthony De Mello

#8. Since the brain is unlike any other structure in the known universe, it seems reasonable to expect that our understanding of its functioning - if it can ever be achieved - will require approaches that are drastically different from the way we understand other physical systems.

Richard Restak

#9. Physically, gardens must have boundaries. Mentally, they can reach to the limits of the known universe. The ideas that bestow such vast extent upon gardens derive from sun, earth, art, water, history, civilization, family, anything.

Tom Turner

#10. Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?

Thomas Browne

#11. Preparatory faith is formed by experiences in the past-by the known, which provides a basis for belief. But redemptive faith must often be exercised toward experiences in the future-the unknown, which provides an opportunity for the miraculous.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#12. The known world shrinks and vanishes, and the soul hurls itself into the uncharted distances of the unknown where everything is strange and yet familiar, and the language of music, of poets, and of dreams is spoken.

Hermann Hesse

#13. Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures, your delights, your despairs, your sorrows. Take a journey into that, that is all you have.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#14. I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature.

Albert Einstein

#15. Include the knower in the known.

Julian Jaynes

#16. I have listened
And I have looked
With open eyes.
I have poured my soul
Into the world
Seeking the unknown
Within the known.
And I sing out loud
In amazement.

Rabindranath Tagore

#17. The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#18. THE KNOWN CHILD I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the known child.

Dick Francis

#19. There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how.

Cynthia Ozick

#20. Humanity ... lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

Margaret Mead

#21. Smart radiation researchers use radiation resistance health techniques in order to offset the known biological harm of their toxic radiation exposures.

Steven Magee

#22. The English, he thought, had once conquered most of the known world, but their cooking hadn't improved as a result.

Lavie Tidhar

#23. I thirsted for the unknown: the thirst is gone. O God, let me stay with the known, and be weary of it: I am content.

George Eliot

#24. In our skulls, we carry around 3 pounds of slimy, wet, greyish tissue, corrugated like crumpled toilet paper. You wouldn't think, to look at the unappetizing lump, that it was some of the most powerful stuff in the known universe.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#25. Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
[Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]

Plautus

#26. My father looks at me the way he is looking at my mother in one of their wedding pictures: like he can't believe that she is with him now and will be with him forever, that she has chosen to be with him out of all the men in the known world.

Francisco X Stork

#27. Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.

Aberjhani

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. ... the known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow.

Jasper Fforde

#31. 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

#32. Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known.

John Dewey

#33. You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire

#34. When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible

Deepak Chopra

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. The unknown is just as real as the known and must be made to look so.

Graham Sutherland

#39. Scientific study and reflection had taught us that the known universe of three dimensions embraces the merest fraction of the whole cosmos of substance and energy.

H.P. Lovecraft

#40. Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.

Parker J. Palmer

#41. Some things are just universal.
Like the known scientific fact that the colder and wetter you are, the better bacon smells frying.

Elizabeth Bear

#42. In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom.

Deepak Chopra

#43. 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

#44. I can't explain how it is I keep having new ideas. But one book inevitably follows another. It is my way of exploring the known, the remembered, and the imagined, the literary triad of which all stories are made.

Virginia Hamilton

#45. Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of the real and unreal. In short, It is beyond all relativity.

Ramakrishna

#46. The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

Dennis Weaver

#47. Capitalism is of this material world; it provides us with the means to live; it empowers us within the known world of sense and human reason. If it is to be measured by a strict standard of holiness, by religious normativity alone, then there can never be a moral capitalism.

Stephen Young

#48. The human brain is the last, and greatest, scientific frontier. It is truly an internal cosmos that lies contained within our skulls. The more than 100 billion nerve cells and trillion supporting cells that make up your brain and mine constitute the most elaborate structure in the known universe.

Joel Davis

#49. 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

#50. Which is more improbable - that the trillions of solar systems in the known universe exploded from something smaller than a pinhead or that there is an invisible, omniscient moral intelligence present everywhere that has the highest tolerance for cruelty?

David Hayden

#51. Even child abuse specialists do not routinely screen for domestic violence. This shows how much more education we need to do, even among experts, to understand the known links between violence of the child and the parent.

Jocelyn Brown

#52. Every successful work of art is a collaboration between the known and the unknown.

Marty Rubin

#53. Some people are happy when they are at the sea; I'm happy when I'm standing in front of a shelf of books. It feels like the known place and also the beginning of a new adventure. It has that simultaneous paradoxical effect of making me feel absolutely calm and very excited.

Jeanette Winterson

#54. Science and Truth are simple phenomenon of nature, but it is the known that is preventing us from mastering the unknown.

Chandrakanth Natekar

#55. I tend to prioritize emotional realism above the known laws of time and space, and when you do that, it's inevitable that strange things happen. Which can be quite enjoyable, I think.

Helen Oyeyemi

#56. Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.

Ivar Giaever

#57. The word for 'book' in all the known languages of the earth is vallon, 'chamber of words' ...

Sofia Samatar

#58. I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs
By the known rules of ancient liberty,
When straight a barbarous noise environs me
Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.

John Milton

#59. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately calibrated between the known and the unknown? That our souls need the mysteries of night and the clarity of day?

Dave Eggers

#60. Even terror needs a yardstick, and surely the yardstick for the unknown is the known?

Carsten Jensen

#61. But basically courage is risking the known for the unknown, the familiar for the unfamiliar, the comfortable for the uncomfortable, arduous pilgrimage to some unknown destination. One never knows whether one will be able to make it or not. It is gambling, but only the gamblers know what life is. THE

Osho

#62. 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

#63. ... the guy owns half the known universe. I hardly think he'd be all warm and fuzzy. More like dark and dangerous.

J. Kenner

#64. Forget the known, don't be all the time immersed in your experiences.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#65. Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

Robert Heinecken

#66. Electricians that like good health avoid the known biologically toxic very high powered electrical utility jobs.

Steven Magee

#67. In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

Chang-rae Lee

#68. We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.

Carlos Castaneda

#69. I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas ... To the ancient Greeks and Romans, the known world comprised

Carl Sagan

#70. Each morning we awaken to find that life is a bit less understandable. Each morning we awaken to the disappearance of the known. Each morning we awaken to discover that we have missed the last bus for the life to come.

Steve Rasnic Tem

#71. 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

#72. We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.

Anne Lamott

#73. The Mongol conquests are difficult to fathom. Although their most important technology was the horse, they conquered much of the known world from China to Europe, a series of wars that killed tens of millions of people, then a substantial chunk of the world's population.

Max Fisher

#74. The source and essence of all creation can be found everywhere. It resides equally in you, in me, and in all things. True wisdom is the fullest understanding of this essence--an understanding that can happen only when there is no separation between the knower and the known.

Victor Shamas

#75. 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

#76. There is simply no plausible construction of the known evidence that leaves out Novak either providing a proffer through his lawyer of what he would say if he testified or having testified directly.

Michael Isikoff

#77. Unless you leave the known paths, no one will realize your footprints!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#78. Art is a step in the known toward the unknown

Khalil Gibran

#79. A guitar store is the only place in the known universe where a guy will allow himself to shop like a woman

Tim Brookes

#80. You have been hiding so long aimlessly drifting in the sea of my love Even so You have always been connected to me Connected, revealed in the known in the unmanifest I am life itself

Rumi

#81. We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.

John Stott

#82. Let us lie down once more by the breathing side
Of Ocean, where our live forefathers sleep
As if the Known Sea still were a month wide
Atlantis howls but is no longer steep!

Allen Tate

#83. To learn more, we have to be willing to leave the zone of the known and step into the void.

Dennis Merritt Jones

#84. If you were to look at each atom as a universe unto itself, think of the number of universes within each of us;at the same time, look at any one of us in the vast space I am seeing out the window of this bus, which is a molecule on a cell on a flea on a hair on a wart of the known universe.

Chris Crutcher

#85. Academic library collections are designed to support critical thinking, skepticism about the known, and curiosity about the unknown.

Wayne Bivens-Tatum

#86. There's a silent voice in the wilderness that we hear only when no one else is around. When you go far, far beyond, out across the netherlands of the Known, the din of human static slowly fades away, over and out.

Rob Schultheis

#87. We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.

Sharon Salzberg

#88. I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

Thomas Jefferson

#89. And like everybody else in the known universe, she didn't always let herself in on the truth.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#90. The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant to energize a computer the size of a city block to mimic your brain, and your brain does it with just 20 watts. So if someone calls you a dim bulb, that's a compliment.

Michio Kaku

#91. People fear leaving their safe harbor of the known and venturing off into the unknown. Human beings crave certainty - even when it limits them.

Robin S. Sharma

#92. The more we cling to the known, the more fearful we are of the unknown.

Art Hochberg

#93. Avoid the known paths or else be ready to end up in the known places!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#94. Here then is the truth about the Truth; the Truth is not bridge, sturdy to every step, a marvel of bound planks and supports from the known into the unknown, but a surging sea of smashed wood, flotsam and drowning sailors.

Julian Assange

#95. It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Wallace Stevens

#96. Every musician in the known universe has signed a bad piece of paper, myself included. But it's really very simple. You're the artist. It's your picture that's going on the CD cover, nobody else's. Protect yourself. Get a good lawyer. You'll kick yourself later if you don't.

Bun E. Carlos

#97. Constantly working outward, putting system after system inside the known universe, they were the bright hungry wave of mankind reaching out to gather in the stars.

Algis Budrys

#98. You cannot travel to the known; because all travels are towards the future and the future is unknown!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#99. Creativity is not the clever rearranging of the known.

Viola Spolin

#100. The difference between the Known and Unknown is just Knowing it.

Ahtesham