Unknown Quotes
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A way of life which excludes the realm of the unknown and the mysterious is simply not in harmony with life itself.
Yehudi Menuhin -
All readers are tourists. We want to make sense of what we see and hear, to find the balance between what is unknown and what we can call ours.
Margo Jefferson
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Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.
D. H. Lawrence -
Will you lose everything you've got if you open your own restaurant? Who knows. Will unleashing your secret desire to teach tap dancing ruin your reputation as a professional wrestler? Who knows. And who cares? Unless your unknown puts you at risk of death, prison, or bodily harm, you have nothing to lose except living a dull, uninspired life.
Jen Sincero -
Conceptually, I am open to mistakes - errors, actually. I do play lots of wrong notes while I am making some music, and a mistake or a wrong note is like a gift for me: 'Oh, wow, an unknown sound or an unknown harmony. I didn't know about this.'
Ryuichi Sakamoto -
The unknown is very appealing to me. I like to be surprised. I love the idea I might know less at the end of reading something than I do at the beginning.
James Spader -
Private enterprise in the history of civilization has never led large, expensive, dangerous projects with unknown risks. That has never happened because when you combine all these factors, you cannot create a capital market valuation of that activity.
Neil deGrasse Tyson -
The planting of hemp and flax would be an unknown advantage to the kingdom, many places therein being as apt for it , as any foreing parts.
Francis Bacon
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The unknown has undone many a president, and no matter the popularity of an Oval Office occupant, any and all presidents are vulnerable. Of course, one thing that seems to set Obama part from his recent predecessors is his ability to keep an inner calm about tough issues.
Chuck Todd -
I'm the unknown everyone's already sick of.
Jessica Chastain -
What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself.
Pablo Picasso -
In love marriages, you at least know your partner. A known devil is better than an unknown one!
Mona Singh -
Everything unknown is magnified.
Tacitus -
This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of happenstance were at this moment occurring or failing to occur in order to ensure he took his next breath, and the next.
Louise Erdrich
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
Seneca the Younger -
What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Reality had always been something of an unknown quantity to me.
Anna Kavan -
Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.
Erin O'Connor -
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 -
It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that scares me most. - Zara
Carrie Jones
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How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unkown?
Esmeralda Santiago -
The fascination for me is searching the unknown for a mystery.
Clive Cussler -
It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?
John Lennon The Beatles -
A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.
John Milton