Quotes About Unknown

But to close your eyes for the last time on something precious - a hope, a hand reaching out for you - that must be the worst. Even terror needs a yardstick, and surely the yardstick for the unknown is the known?

When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain.

Perhaps we can fly. All of us. How will we ever know unless we leap from some tall tower? No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap.

You cannot know what the light might summon from the darkness.

They had ridden past the end of the world; somehow that changed everything.

She had to have gone elsewhere... but elsewhere is a big place.

These woods are as empty as you think, he had said. You cannot know what the light might summon from the darkness.

In the darkness all the gods were strangers.

There are other things I newly wake with. A sadness that is different altogether from the cloudy sediment dread bears up. It is dark and solo. I can't see the bottom of it. And another thing I don't recognise, a kind of hunger to grab another person and press them as deep into knowing as I've gone.

The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy,

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing--and keeping the unknown always beyond you.

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.

When Columbus started out he didn't know where he was going, when he got there he didn't know where he was, and when he got back he didn't know where he had been.

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

A good problem statement often includes: (a) what is known, (b) what is unknown, and (c) what is sought.

It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.

People are afraid of the future, of the unknown. If a man faces up to it, and takes the dare of the future, he can have some control over his destiny. That's an exciting idea to me, better than waiting with everybody else to see what's going to happen.

There is no data on the future.

Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.

Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.

Here is a toast that I want to give To a fellow I'll never know; To the fellow who's going to take my place When it's time for me to go.

Mi i ne znamo kolike snage i kakve sve mogu?nosti krije u sebi svako živo stvorenje. I ne slutimo šta sve umemo. Budemo i pro?emo, a ne saznamo šta smo sve mogli biti i u?initi.