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Quotes About Unknown

Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastery of a subject -- the actual enemy is the unknown.
~ Thomas Mann
Freedom exists, and also the will exists; but the freedom of the will does not exist, for a will that aims at its own freedom aims at the unknown.
~ Thomas Mann
To be unknown to God is entirely too much privacy.
~ Thomas Merton
Heaven and earth come together in the Unbegun, And all is foolishness, all is unknown, all is like The lights of an idiot, all is without mind! To obey is to close the beak and fall into Unbeginning.
~ Thomas Merton
For a Christian is one whom the world does not know.
~ Thomas Merton
When you gentlemen come to stand at the Boundary between the Settl'd and the Unpossess'd, just about to enter the Deep Woods, you will recognize the Sensation....
~ Thomas Pynchon
They sit there for a minute while unknown forms of life pursue recreational activities in their food.
~ Thomas Pynchon
The band played up and down valleys still in those days unknown except to a few real-estate visionaries, little crossroads places where one day houses'd sprawl and the rates of human affliction in all categories zoom.
~ Thomas Pynchon
If he does not yet treasure, neither does he cast away, these Lesser Revelations, saving them one by mean, insufficient one,— some unbidden, some sought and earn'd, all gathering in a small pile inside the Casket of his Hopes, against an unknown Sum, intended to purchase his Salvation.
~ Thomas Pynchon
A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations.
~ Kathie Lee Gifford
There are times in our lives when the Lord calls us to seize the opportunities presented us. When we must, no matter how hard or fearful, summon the courage to step out into the unknown, brave the darkness, and embrace the dawn. With the Lord's help, though, such seemingly impossible feats become not only attainable, but essential.
~ Kathleen Morgan
God always has a reason, Abby. It's just so hard sometimes for us to accept it." She smiled sadly. "Fear gets in the way, doesn't it? Fear of that great unknown, fear that God will require something that we cannot, or don't want, to do. But we can, Abby. God never asks anything of us that He doesn't give us sufficient strength to do. And He never, ever asks it unless it's for our greater good.
~ Kathleen Morgan
From the southern windows of the university that look out on Unter den Linden could be seen the small dome of the monument to the Unknown Soldier. I stood with Erich Doehr one afternoon in April of 1934 at a high window, looking down upon it and upon the briskly moving traffic and the pedestrians with which the mile-wide square teemed. Everywhere your eye moved it caught sight of a uniform.
~ Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
Who's there?
~ Kathy Reichs
NEVER answer the phone to a number I don't recognise. Instead I wait until it's finished ringing and then google the number to try and work out who it is and what they might want.
~ Katie Kirby
Where to now? Only the previously unknowable and unspoken will bring us there.
~ Kazim Ali
MOM: 'You have to remember we're on an alien planet. There are all sorts of strange and dangerous things around us.' NAVIN: 'Yeah, isn't it great?
~ Kazu Kibuishi
Though I did not know the place, I set out for the land of my dreams. Having arrived at the land of my dreams, I found I did not know the place
~ Keiichi Sigsawa
And what are we planning on doing once we get there?" "I don't have a plan." "Okay… and I thought 'I *have* a plan' were the scariest words I'd ever heard you say.
~ Keiichi Sigsawa
What they were reacting to was being in this enclosed space with us—this illusion, me, Mick and Brian. The music might be the trigger, but the bullet, nobody knows what that is.
~ Keith Richards
Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wild World," said the Rat. "And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or to me. I've never been there, and I'm never going, nor you either, if you've got any sense at all.
~ Kenneth Grahame
This was a new menace that threatened them, something that they couldn't explain; and so, naturally, it aroused within them superstitious fear.
~ burroughs edgar rice ii
The critical philosophy of science became as it were negatively metaphysical--in other words, materialistic--on the basis of an error of judgement; matter was assumed to be a tangible and recognizable reality. Yet this is a thoroughly metaphysical concept hypostatized by uncritical minds. Matter is an hypothesis. When you say "matter," you are really creating a symbol for something unknown, which may just as well be "spirit" or anything else; it may even be God.
~ C.G. Jung
The dream, we would say, originates in an unknown part of the psyche and prepares the dreamer for the events of the following day.
~ C.G. Jung