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Quotes About Unknown

Marta Stern to her father Sandy:] "Science is where the truth is in our world," she said that night in the office. "What once belonged to religion or philosophy is now the business of science. That's where we'll learn what's really unknown about being here on Earth.
~ Scott Turow
You only keep a watch on those who cause you suffering. If you want to remain unknown to the world, all that's needed is not to hurt anyone.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Of course, I am a heretic. The word hairesis in Greek means choice; a heretic is one who is able to choose. Its root stems from the Greek word hairein, to take. Faced with the mystery of life and death, each act of faith is a gamble. We all risk choices before the unknown. -Forrest Church
~ John A. Buehrens
To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.
~ John Arbuthnot
I was not aware of the weaver fish, with its highly poisonous spines, whose venom can cause acute agony, even death when untreated. The wife of Field Marshal Montgomery is thought to have died in this way, after paddling with her children off the east coast. The victor of Alamein was then an unknown major. He is reported never to have mentioned her name again, and he never looked at another woman.
~ John Bayley
Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
~ John Berger
Nobody knows and you can't find out
~ John Brockman
Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
~ John Buchan
When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein ' 'The Creeping Unknown ' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet ' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.
~ John Carpenter
If we are desperate, though , if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.
~ Paulo Coelho
My main object in life is to see what will happen next.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
There were [in 21] all those times in my life that I didn't know this was going to happen. I didn't know if anybody was going to care about our music.
~ Kenny Chesney
It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . .
~ George Gissing
You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.
~ Bella Pollen, Midnight Cactus
This Life is a fleeting breath, And whither and how shall I go, When I wander away with Death By a path that I do not know.
~ Louise Chandler Moulton
Life is a foggy road. You may come across anything on the road.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Life is a journey through a foreign land.
~ O.R. Melling
The great mystery of life is the length of it.
~ Venita VanCaspel
I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.
~ Agatha Christie
Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.
~ Agatha Christie
You never know if you have met your best friend in life yet. That still may be to come.
~ Alan Robertson
...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?
~ Alexandre Dumas
What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Life is hopefully long, so I don't know what the future will bring.
~ Bethenny Frankel