“ The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. ”
- Rene Magritte- Copy
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“ Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. ”
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry- Copy
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“ It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. ”
- Wallace Stevens- Copy
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“ He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism, which can only be called, 'It. ”
- Elinor Glyn- Copy
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“ On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy. ”
- David Brooks- Copy
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“ Content is a word unknown to life. It is also a word unknown to man. ”
- John Fowles- Copy
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“ There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. ”
- Elias Canetti- Copy
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“ When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly. ”
- Patrick Overton- Copy
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“ You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject — the actual enemy is the unknown. ”
- Thomas Mann- Copy
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“ Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know… ”
- Donald Rumsfeld- Copy
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“ In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. ”
- Thomas Pickering- Copy
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“ How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown. ”
- Claude Bernard- Copy
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“ The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity. ”
- Stuart Seaton- Copy
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“ The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed. ”
- Gordon Parks- Copy
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“ People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. ”
- Thich Nhat Hanh- Copy
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“ The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. ”
- H.P. Lovecraft- Copy
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“ All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown. ”
- William Harvey- Copy
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“ It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. ”
- J. K. Rowling- Copy
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“ I envy the man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown. ”
- Euripides- Copy
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