The master initiate of any craft appears magical to the…

Nothing can prepare the uninitiated for New York City.

— Therese Anne Fowler

I'm always a little bit cautious around invented terminology because so much science fiction is off-putting to the uninitiated. You open up the first…

— Alastair Reynolds

The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“To the uninitiated they have merely murmured, with a pitying smile and a wave of the hand: What! are you still troubled by that?…

— George Santayana

Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people who believe…

— Plato

“Many women do not even have the basic teaching about predators that a wolf mother gives her pups, such as: if it's threatening and…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

The uninitiated are those who believe in nothing except what they can grasp in their hands, and who deny the existence of all that…

— Socrates

The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

“The whys and wherefores didn’t need to be said. If you are reading this have ever loved someone, you will understand. Putting it into…

— José Rizal

“It may be whispered to those uninitiated people who are anxious to know the habits and make the acquaintance of men of letters, that…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Any thing or behavior too complex to understand becomes a phenomenon that could be termed spiritual or magical.”

— Bryant McGill

As you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what…

— Eckhart Tolle

Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.

— Octavia Butler

I normally don't initiate conversations with guys unless they want to talk about certain things - when I'm at the facility, I'm there to…

— Chris Kluwe

I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad…

— Tom Segev