Unknown Quotes - page 7

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown. (William Harvey)
To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed. View quote
Edward Abbey
To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss. View quote
Michael Oakeshott
I'm at the depot, and I'm not going anywhere. That's better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is they don't want to fail. They don't want to pay the price unless there's a guarantee they're going to get there. View quote
Mark Spitz
Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact. View quote
Mark Spitz
Stop being so fruitlessly busy and. Use your. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world. View quote
Mary Balogh
His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown territory. View quote
Neal Shusterman
As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal. View quote
Robin S. Sharma
If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown. View quote
Felix Baumgartner
There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering. View quote
Helen Fisher
No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall. (Shia LaBeouf)
Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell which lures me, the need of freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on----in quest of the secret which is hidden over there----beyond the horizon? View quote
Eugene O'Neill
I'm scared of the unknown future. View quote
Bethenny Frankel
The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral. View quote
Garth Stein
It would be cool to be invisible, but I'm afraid of what people would say about me if they didn't know I was there. Some things are better left unknown. View quote
James Marsden
Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear. View quote
Joan D. Vinge
It is possible, you know, to drift off to an unknown world and find happiness there. Maybe even more happiness than you've ever known before. View quote
John Boyne
Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but you're still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you. View quote
Lisa Kleypas
It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising. View quote
Alan Rickman
Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us. View quote
Louis de Bernieres
The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown. (Henry Walter Bates)
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. View quote
Philippe Halsman
Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet. View quote
Lynn Abbey
Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances. View quote
Karl Abraham
Sailing is the closest I can get to nature - it's adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks. View quote
Daria Werbowy