Quotes About Unknown

All that wasted time, and he didn't even know who'd wasted it.

To go through all that and give birth to a shredder: it wasn't a fine thought. We didn't know exactly what would happen to the babies that didn't get passed, that were declared Unbabies. But we knew they were put somewhere, quickly, away.

But it's difficult to be grateful for the absence of an unknown quantity.

On a voyage of exploration, how can you price what you'll find before you even set sail?

You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.

At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone, there was a constant surveillance by UFOs.

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Don't keep saying, "I don't know where the time goes." It goes the same place it's always gone and no one has ever known where that is.

because the most terrible emotional anguish known to humans is not knowing.

You don't know what happiness lies before you yet, you are now only in the commencement of your journey.

It's obvious that I'm a stranger to her; she doesn't even know what I think about the most ordinary things.

We tend not to choose the unknown which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. And yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching. In so many ways this

There was a fear in the unknown which was too vast to find the strength to face. Everything precious and familiar was being engulfed in a spiritual void.

It was the unknown that paralyzed the will to fight.

We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast as the universe; which means endless.

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

It's always been pride. The History of the Mayfair Witches was pride. But this came to me wrapped in the mysteries of science. We have such a terrible, terrible misconception of science. We think it involves the definite, the precise, the known; it is a horrid series of gates to an unknown as vast as the universe; which means endless. And I knew this, I knew but I forgot. That was my mistake.

The horror was this: the others.

You're a mystery the way a sacrament is a mystery.

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds—justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.