Unknown Quotes

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.

I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.

When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.

We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

I'm not working now, so I'm sort of facing the unknown.

On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.

There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter!

The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.

The Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has the, continual threat for life; it's got the thread of Indians; it's got disease. It has daily risk where these men may go under the water. It's got the fight with the elements. It's got the el the role of the unknown continually threatening them.

What really excites me is the unknown, and getting to grips with something you have no idea about.

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not.

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.

That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.