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Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There were so many levels to the unknown, from safe to dangerous to outright nebulous, scariest of all. — Sarah Dessen
The most wonderful thing, Mary, is that you and I are always walking together, hand in hand, in a strangely beautiful world, unknown to other… — Khalil Gibran
The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances… — Paul Theroux
Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isnâ€™t a learned behavior. Itâ€™s just some unknown biological factor that… — J.A. Konrath
The position of the Atheist is a clear and reasonable one. I know nothing about â€˜Godâ€™ and therefore I do not believe in Him or… — Annie Besant
... 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… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I believe confidence is all about being positive concerning what you can do -- and not worrying over what you can't do. A confident person… — Joyce Meyer
Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a… — Joseph Heller
Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death… — Paulo Coelho
To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power. — Michael Scott
Man has no individual i. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "i"s, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming… — G I Gurdjieff
Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its… — Michel Foucault
We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run… — Pablo Picasso
Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us. — Louis de Bernieres
Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. Thatâ€™s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from,… — Rebecca Solnit
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and… — Rebecca Solnit
Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the… — Richard Francis Burton
Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one whoâ€™s generous spirit, was the source… — Dean Koontz
Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes. — Charles Lindbergh

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