And though it be not so in the physical, yet in moral science that which cannot be understood is not always profitless. For the soul awakes, a trembling stranger, between two dim eternities,—the eternal past,...

Essentially, almost all humans are born with a fear of the unknown. It casts a pall of anxiety which pushes us into the arms of religions and soothsayers and their made-up answers.

I feel like people are so accustomed to comfort…now in days the truth to things is uncomfortable, so people avoid it. & sugarcoat things into a lie.. Sometimes the truth may be insensitive but I...

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

[Rumsfield’s] reply included a complex formulation that would become inextricably associated with him: ‘There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are...

Don’t!” cried Jamie. “Don’t be bitter, Margaret. We don’t know why, we never can know why things happen in this world exactly as they do; but this we know: We know that God is in...

Fear of the unknown makes us slaves of the old.

Our destination isn’t clear. All I know is that I want to get there together. The Unknown is scary. I’ll always have some fear about what’s going to happen next. The thing is, the unknown...

Hegel used to say that the familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown. That’s why we don’t know so much about stupidity.

My friends, life is so serious that if you are not aware of whom you are, your “youniversity” will be prestigious but unknown!

Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the depths of self, and all of humankind.

I believe the difficulty that lies in growth, is the struggle of letting go of all you know to learn about the unknown. When in all actuality the unknown that you’re learning about is yourself.

Though I couldn’t make out what she was talking of I was terribly frightened; the absence of a clue gave such a range to one’s imagination.(“Sir Edmund Orme”)

Friends can be the best co-conspirators in charting the unknown.

What scares you masters you.

I can’t say for sure if I’m better off, since I have no way of knowing what would have been. I could have traveled to exotic places and kissed exotic men in the moonlight. Or...

…the known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow.

By Jove, it’s great! Walk along the streets on some spring morning. The little women, daintily tripping along, seem to blossom out like flowers. What a delightful, charming sight! The dainty perfume of violet is...

Life is a walk through the forest. Don’t fear the trees; fear what lurks behind them.

Life has this beautiful way of opening doors when you least expect it. How thy open is sometimes never known. But does that not only further justify the magic and the possibility to the thought,...

To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I won’t want to.

The root of all fear lies in the unknown.

Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That’s why fear should be unknown to us.

The people through which the Tradition of the Sun spoke were people just like anyone else, and who, one morning or one evening, looked at the world and felt the presence of something greater. They...

It is better to exist unknow to the law.–Irish Proverb

I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn’t know who I was from a fly on the wall.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

Fear is and has always been dead. It’s how we picture it that makes fear come to life.

Lord, deliver us from what we already knew we wanted. Give us some new desires, the weirder the better.

When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen. There will...

Well, suppose we remain upon earth, after all? Suppose we bravely accept the death of our dreams at the same time as the death of our bodies? This beyond is decidedly uncertain, quite vague and...

We fail so easily to see the difference between fear of the unknown and respect for the unknown, thinking that those who do not hasten in with bright lights and knives are deterred by a...

I always liked the unknown. Ironically I familiarized myself with the uncertainty of life. Life can change in any minute of the day. God can turn anything around in a speck of a moment. I...

Even places you know well can take on a touch of the unknown when you arrive there from a different direction.

In times of turmoil, void or suffering, closely stays the images mirroring the lived, far seems the unknown to be; pick yourself a lens to see through, your eyes touch the distant mountains and the...

It is good to love the unknown.

There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.

Your mind is filled with ample secret abilities not known to you, keep it active by shutting down disbelieve.

I learned that people don’t buy anything from unknown stores.

Last night I walked for hours. It was as if I wanted to get lost down some unknown street. To get absolutely and happily lost. But there are moments when we can’t, when we don’t...

Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed there must be evil.

There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he does, superstition perches near.

Then the one called Raltariki is really a demon?” asked Tak.”Yes—and no,” said Yama, “If by ‘demon’ you mean a malefic, supernatural creature, possessed of great powers, life span and the ability to temporarily assume...

It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but for one futile instant longer… Whereas I, I come softly...

Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego’s regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society’s longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returning with ideas.

Nobody wants to leave what they know to go either to the unknown, or to grandmother’s house.

The unknown is always frightening.

Lawford had soundlessly stolen a pace or two nearer, and by stopping forward he could, each in turn, scrutinize the little intent company sitting over his story around the lamp at the further end of...