Top 100 Unknown Known Quotes
#1. Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing
and keeping the unknown always beyond you.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#2. Why are we now going into space? Well, why did we trouble to look past the next mountain? Our prime obligation to ourselves is to make the unknown known. We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.
Gene Roddenberry
#3. There is a classic esthetic which romantics often miss because of its subtlety. The classic style is straightforward, unadorned, unemotional, economical and carefully proportioned. Its purpose is not to inspire emotionally, but to bring order out of chaos and make the unknown known.
Robert M. Pirsig
#5. Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp ...
Georgia O'Keeffe
#6. Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process.
Glen Duncan
#7. When we make the unfamiliar familiar,make the unknown known,make the uncomfortable comfortable,and believe the unbelievable,
we can then
expect the unexpected.
Charles F. Glassman
#8. Art is one step from the visibly known toward the unknown. MS-71
Kahlil Gibran
#9. On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
Seneca The Younger
#10. And tomorrow
who knows what happens? Do you get it? I don't know and no one knows
it's all unknown! You understand, that this is the end to the Known? This is the new, the improbable, the unpredictable.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#11. I prefer to drift rather than steer toward some known shore.
Marty Rubin
#12. Then it came into his heart that he would command men to fashion a hall and a 55 mansion, a mightier house for their mead-drinking than the children of men had ever known, and
Unknown
#13. The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.
Raheel Farooq
#14. In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
Thomas R. Pickering
#15. Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And
I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often
not. Life is a dream surely.
Virginia Woolf
#16. Intelligence looks for what is known to solve problems. Creativity looks for what is unknown to discover possibilities.
Simon Sinek
#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. I've learned that it is what I do not know that I fear, and I strive, outwardly from pride, inwardly from the knowledge that the unknown is what will finally kill me, to know all there is to be known about my airplane. I will never die.
Richard Bach
#19. Every-time when you get into an unknown zone,
Only one thing is known to you ...
either you will know the zone
or
you will remain unknown forever ...
Adil Adam Memon
#20. I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.
Alec Guinness
#21. The unknown is just as unknown as the ability to discover the known inside it.
Ben Midland
#22. Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
Agnes Denes
#23. I was seized by doubt. Should I have come here? But going back was impossible. I had fled a known terror, and perhaps I could cope with this unknown terror that lay ahead.
Richard Wright
#24. If I do not know reality, the unknown, how can I search for it? Surely it must come but I cannot go after it. If I go after it I am going after something which is the known, projected by me; by my own mind.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#25. An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.
Julia Cameron
#27. We trade away some, if not much, of our freedom for the feeling of safety that comes with sticking with what we know because the known can only be as scary as it already is, whereas the unknown has limitless potential to be terrifying.
Philip K. Jason
#28. Truth is, something exists, and everything exists for a reason. Regardless if the reason is known or unknown, knowable or unknowable, reason exists and can be named.
John K. Brown
#31. Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
Claude Bernard
#32. Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom
to know what is known and what is unknown to us?
Plato
#33. The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.
Gordon Parks
#34. 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
#35. The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land. - T. H. Huxley,
Carl Sagan
#36. Words make known. But we live in the unknown.
Marty Rubin
#37. The fear of an unknown never resolves, because the unknown expands infinitely outward, leaving you to cling pitifully to any small shelter of the known: a cracker has twelve calories; the skin, when cut, bleeds.
Caroline Kettlewell
#38. We generally colour our ideas of the unknown with our notions of the known.
Fernando Pessoa
#39. Though this universe I own,
I possess not a thing,
for I cannot know the unknown
if to the known I cling.
Robert Fisher
#40. We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast as the universe; which means endless.
Anne Rice
#41. My unique path through life has led me, however, to fear known threats but seldom the unknown, while most people fear both.
Dean Koontz
#42. In love marriages, you at least know your partner. A known devil is better than an unknown one!
Mona Singh
#43. The unknown is uncontrolled; no strategies exist that will enclose the endless territory of the new. Only by trusting in yourself and in this world can you get past the watchdogs of your fears and out of the iron gates of the already-known.
Arthur J. Deikman
#44. Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.
Mahatma Gandhi
#45. The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.
Joseph Campbell
#46. What's more frightening? The known or the unknown?
Jodi Meadows
#47. We might have known from the first that human curiosity is undying, and that the results we announced would be enough to spear others ahead on the same age-long pursuit of the unknown.
H.P. Lovecraft
#48. Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact.
Mark Spitz
#49. Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the depths of self, and all of humankind.
Madelaine Standing
#50. The unknown is not what to be afraid of, it's only when the unknown becomes known that one can decide whether to be afraid or not.
Markus Peterson
#51. Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he replied, "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way." Then
Alice Munro
#52. Travelling on the known path is intelligence;
travelling on an unknown path is boldness.
Making your own path is greatness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#53. Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#54. There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
Aldous Huxley
#55. Life is an intresting journey where the beginning is known,way is a puzzle and the end is unknown
William Shakespeare
#56. 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
#57. I have walked enough to see how life treats us differently in the same situation again & again ...
Journey from unknown to known
Adil Adam Memon
#58. In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
William Blake
#59. A journey to the unknown shores needs a port, a ship, a wind; but more important than all of them: Courage; courage to leave the known for the unknown!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#60. Loving service anonymously given may be unknown to man-but the gift and the giver are known to God.
Thomas S. Monson
#61. there is a sweet spot between the known and the unknown where originality happens; the key is to be able to linger there without panicking. And
Ed Catmull
#62. The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown to Japanese, particularly of the younger generation.
Hirokazu Koreeda
#63. Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown.
L. Ron Hubbard
#64. When I re-read, I know what I'm getting. It's like revisiting an old friend. An unread book holds wonderful unknown promise, but also threatens disappointment. A re-read is a known quantity.
Jo Walton
#65. Our lives, I've learned, don't simply proceed nicely and directly from "birth" to "death." Instead, I see each one of us as traveling a most curious and branching-out or circuitous route, one that is creative in ways that are both known and, I'm sure now, unknown. Ah,
Jane Roberts
#66. She's been around all my life and I've done nothing; stayed as far from her as I could because I don't like thinking about her pain. But that's chicken shit, because once a thing is known, it can't be unknown. He sits back and folds his hands
Chris Crutcher
#67. Five years have come, and five years have gone, and still we stand together as one. We come back to this place to remember the heartbreaking anniversary - and each person who died here - those known and unknown to us, whose absence is always with us.
Michael Bloomberg
#68. I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.
Alex Webb
#69. He who thinks that God is not comprehended, by him God is comprehended; but he who thinks that God is comprehended knows him not. God is unknown to those who know him, and is known to those who do not know him at all.
Alan W. Watts
#70. A good problem statement often includes what is known, what is unknown, and what is sought.
Edward Hodnett
#71. As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.
Cameron Dokey
#72. In the dream world, anything is possible. It requires a fertile imagination, and a desire to explore the half-light between the known and the unknown.
Fennel Hudson
#73. 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
#75. Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities
Deepak Chopra
#76. Love is subsequent to knowledge and to the thing known, for nothing unknown is loved.
Nicholas Of Cusa
#77. The practice of science happens at the border between the known and the unknown. Standing on the shoulders of giants, we peer into the darkness with eyes opened not in fear but in wonder.
Brian Cox
#78. For one last time, I said my goodbyes to the place I'd known as home for the last decade, and for the first time, I welcomed the unknown.
Nicole Sobon
#80. The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.
Al Gore
#81. People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
Zhuangzi
#82. Informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#84. When you marry you marry the known and unknown man or woman
Ikechukwu Joseph
#85. History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#86. Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding.
Werner Heisenberg
#87. Even if your life be bad do not live unknown, but be known, reform, repent; if you have virtue, be not utterly useless in life; if you are vicious, do not continue unreformed.
Plutarch
#88. It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.
Benjamin Graham
#89. Happiness is achieved by flowing with the known and the unknown within you, being in a state of simplified simplicity.
P.A. Wunderlich
#90. We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.
Anthony De Mello
#91. One can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known.
Eliphas Levi
#92. One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#93. In the case of pilots, it is a little touch of madness that drive us to go beyond all known bounds. Any search into the unknown is an incomparable exploitation of oneself.
Jacqueline Auriol
#94. Ego likes comfort zones, safety, familiarity, boundaries, limits, a god who stays put in a box, and the known vs. the unknown. Ego can be a wimp. Unlike what most people believe, ego is not about too much confidence. Ego is about not enough confidence - confidence in the divine part of ourselves.
Janet Rebhan
#95. Your mind is filled with ample secret abilities not known to you, keep it active by shutting down disbelieve.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#96. Vivas to those who have fail'd!
And to those whose war-vessels sank in the sea!
And to those themselves who sank in the sea!
And to all generals that lost engagements, and all overcome heroes!
And the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known!
Walt Whitman
#97. The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.
Henry David Thoreau
#98. It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.
Iris Murdoch
#99. It made the woman feel like a thousand seas had come together from all worlds, like faraway lands had been bridged together, and the vastness of the known and the unknown were somehow easier to comprehend.
Cristina M. Sburlea
#100. Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days, wants to penetrate, and to set bounds to it. Who is it that hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been His counselor?
Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
