Unknown Quotes
1920 Unknown quotes by 1232 unique authors
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Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.
— Brian Greene
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The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The…
— Brennan Manning
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I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the…
— Nikolai Gogol
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I have been a lucky man. To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life. To feel the love of people whom…
— Pablo Neruda
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We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.
— Amy Tan
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Well, usually when a person shakes their head,” said McGonagall coldly, “they mean ‘no.’ So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then…
— Alan Paton
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History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s geometric signs, In…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.
— Taylor Swift
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All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal…
— Alexander Pope
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My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal.
— William Shakespeare
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I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown…
— Aldous Huxley
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I will not let you go into the unknown alone.
— Bram Stoker
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The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of…
— Christopher Morley
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I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't…
— Paulo Coelho
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Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless…
— Jack London
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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it…
— Jack London
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What frightens you? What makes the hair on your arms rise, your palms sweat, the breath catch in your chest like a wild thing caged?…
— Libba Bray
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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming…
— Franz Kafka
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...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?
— Alexandre Dumas
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The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian…
— Fritz Leiber
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B looked down the shaft, at a metal ladder and darkness beyond. "Me first?" Of course. You're the apprentice, so you always go first into…
— Tim Pratt
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For all these years I kept my mouth closed so selfish desires would not fall out. And because I remained quiet for so long now…
— Amy Tan
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