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Unknown Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
- It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its…
- Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.
- A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.
- When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the…
- Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the…
- Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we…
- Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from,…
- 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…
More Unknown Quotes
- I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments. — Dan Aykroyd
- Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. — Emile M. Cioran
- Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather… — Carl Sagan
- It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those… — Herman Boerhaave
- Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's big glass… — Charles Saatchi
- My story starts at sea, a perilous voyage to an unknown land. A shipwreck. The wild waters roar and heave. The brave… — William Shakespeare
- So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a… — Henri Poincare
- The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that… — Benoit Mandelbrot