Unknown Quotes
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To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people.
Blaise Pascal
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In a world of oversharing, we don't want to be unknown or unseen. We don't want to be left out.
Meghan Daum
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I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song.
Anton Zaslavski
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There are too many unknowns in this whole thing. In order to sell the resource, you have to protect the resource.
David Steele Fine Young Cannibals
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They sort of see Hillary Clinton as the status quo, more of the same, which is why the market is expected to rally should she become president. Donald Trump is more of the unknown. We could see an initial sell-off. Longer-term or midterm, their economic plans are very different.
Maria Bartiromo
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There was a night when winds from unknown spaces whirled us irresistibly into limitless vacum beyond all thought and entity. Perceptions of the most maddeningly untransmissible sort thronged upon us; perceptions of infinity which at the time convulsed us with joy, yet which are now partly lost to my memory and partly incapable of presentation to others.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Scientific progress on a broad front results from the free play of free intellects, working on subjects of their own choice, in the manner dictated by their curiosity for exploration of the unknown. Freedom of inquiry must be preserved under any plan for Government support of science...
Vannevar Bush
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I don't allow the stress of the unknown to affect my health, and I listen to my body when it sends me distress signals.
Cobie Smulders
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
Charles de Gaulle
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There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
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No one really knows how to deal with the unexpected. How do you rehearse the unknown?
Wayne Shorter
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First-time novelists have a tough row to hoe. Our publishers don’t have a lot of promotional budget to throw at unknown factors like us. Mostly, we rise and fall based on word-of-mouth.
Cory Doctorow
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I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.
Christa McAuliffe
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I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
Haley Joel Osment
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Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.
John Millington Synge
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... There's a joy, To the fond votaries of fame unknown, To hear the still small voice of conscience speak In whisp'ring plaudit to the silent soul.
Hannah More
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To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.
Edward Abbey
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I've been surprised at how much an unknown like myself can accomplish just by reaching out to people and pleading my case. Quotes for the book cover, reviews and interviews, readings and radio appearances - all this by simply moving ahead and making contact with folks I thought might enjoy the writing.
Patrick deWitt
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Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.
Finley Peter Dunne
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Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.
Ella Maillart
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Things that are unknown attract us.
Deborah Ann Woll
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You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.
Ella Maillart
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The unknown makes people uncomfortable.
Holly Hunter