Unknown Quotes

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Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen pattern of life involves many unknown consequences. Human destiny… — Rene Dubos
The major ingredient of any recipe for fear is the unknown. — Michael Jackson
You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's still a sense that you… — Jason Clarke
I'm the unknown everyone's already sick of. — Jessica Chastain
Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason… — Johann Georg Hamann
It's much easier to work with an unknown. — Taylor Hackford
The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the… — Plato
In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of. — Lee Krasner
The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed.… — Edward Abbey
Only in the irrational and unknown direction can we come to wisdom again — Jack Parsons
I die in sleep, and sleep is death and death is unknown, and unknown is God. — Michael Bassey
Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted… — John Herschel
In a modern world, increasingly filled with pop culture fads and gimmicks, Lisa Morton reveals much of the underbelly history and unknown facts regarding the… — Del Howison
Achilles too staggered a moment. He felt his soul change colour. Blood pooled at his feet, and though he continued to stand upright and triumphant… — David Malouf
Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the… — Walter Reisch
But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
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… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress. — Anais Nin
The greatest friend of the soul is the unknown. Yet we are afraid of the unknown because it lies outside our vision and our control.… — John O'Donohue
If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate… — Thomas a Kempis

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