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  • There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.
  • Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.
  • The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an island in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.
  • For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.
  • We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention.
  • What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.
  • The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
  • It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
  • 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.
  • Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
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  • Denis Waitley A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • John Harrigan Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.
    John Harrigan
     
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an island in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Thomas Mann You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, 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
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • William Wordsworth 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.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Milan Kundera A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Alexander Pope All nature is but art unknown to thee.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bill Bryson All that can really be said is that at some indeterminate point in the very distant past, for reasons unknown, there came the moment known to science as t = 0. We were on our way.
    A Short History of Nearly Everything On the moment of creation; page 10
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Harold Pinter Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
    Harold Pinter
    English playwright, screenwriter and director (1930 - 2008)
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  • John Fowles Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
    John Fowles
    English novelist (1926 - 2005)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Creative life is characterized by spontaneous mutability: it brings forth unknown issues, impossible to preconceive.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • J. Masefield Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die!
    J. Masefield
     
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  • W. Clement Stone Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • A. R. Ammons For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Marquis de Sade Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Anne Grant Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a "map" for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.
    Anne Grant
    Scottish poet and author (1755 - 1838)
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  • George Shinn Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.
    George Shinn
     
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  • John Paul II Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
    John Paul II
    Polish priest and later 264th Pope (1920 - 2005)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bob Dylan How does it feel? To be on your own, with no direction home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone?
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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