Welcome to Unknown Quotes, a curated collection of thought-provoking and enigmatic statements that inspire, challenge, and intrigue. In a world saturated with well-known quotations from famous figures, there’s a certain allure to discovering hidden gems that originate from lesser-known sources. These unknown quotes often carry a unique perspective, offering insights that might have gone unnoticed amidst the more widely circulated sayings.
Within these pages, you’ll encounter a diverse array of quotes covering a broad spectrum of topics from love and life to success and perseverance. Each quote is a testament to the depth and richness of human thought, reminding us that wisdom can be found in unexpected places. Whether you’re seeking inspiration for your next project, a caption for your social media post, or simply a moment of reflection, you’re sure to find something here that resonates with you.
So, delve into this treasure trove of lesser-known quotations, where the hidden wisdom of the past awaits your discovery. Feel free to copy, share, or even embellish these quotes with your own creative touch. Let these words spark your imagination and ignite your journey of self-discovery. After all, sometimes it’s the unknown voices that have the most profound impact. Now, without further ado, let’s explore the mysterious realm of unknown quotes.
God is to me the Great Unknown. I believe in Him, but I find Him not. Adoniram Judson
In a lot of ways knowledge kills fear. Once you know who the boogie man is, once you know what’s under the bed, it can still be frightening but that fear of the unknown is gone. Leigh Whannell
Design is an unknown. Geoffrey Beene
There seems to be a feeling we need Klaus to be in ‘The Vampire Diaries,’ surely and partially because of the Klaus and Caroline dynamic, but many people love the character. They want to see more of the character, but people really have a tendency to fear the unknown. Joseph Morgan
I don’t allow the stress of the unknown to affect my health, and I listen to my body when it sends me distress signals. Cobie Smulders
Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact? If you don’t have a great idea of your own, there are plenty of great teams that need you – unknown startups and established teams in giant companies alike. Justin Rosenstein
We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe. Carlos Castaneda
Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life. John Millington Synge
Failure is a word unknown to me. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides. Noah Feldman
Everybody is afraid of the unknown. Everybody is afraid of the people that they’ve done terrible things to! Wes Craven
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown. Stephen Gardiner
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier – the frontier of the 1960’s – a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils – a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats. John F. Kennedy
It’s not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it. Gustav Mahler
You’ve got to bumble forward into the unknown. Frank Gehry
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The key to growth is acknowledging your fear of the unknown and jumping in anyway. Jen Sincero
So, you know, when I think of survival as a creative act, it’s not trying to plaster over the isolation or to, you know, rewrite your predicament into something positive with a happy ending or some kind of neat resolution. It’s writing into the unknown. Suleika Jaouad
I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless. Rihanna
The happiest ones are those who have a character which would prefer their services to be unknown to all generations. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things. John Wesley Powell
In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train. Bruce Catton
Jazz is a fighter. The word ‘jazz’ means to me, ‘I dare you. Let’s jump into the unknown!’ Wayne Shorter
It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure. Frederick Sanger
The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence to poverty through the vicissitudes of the times. They will give an impulse to smuggling unknown to the country heretofore. John C. Calhoun
There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world. Thomas Jefferson
For a found-footage-style movie, there’s a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it’s real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief. Oren Peli
The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it’s filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn’t happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion. Roger Bannister
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end. Jiddu Krishnamurti
I’ve always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying. Diane Sawyer
Private enterprise can never lead a space frontier. It’s not possible because a space frontier is expensive, it has unknown risks and it has unquantified risks. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence. Pope John Paul II
There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors. Jim Morrison
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. Charles de Gaulle
I find the lure of the unknown irresistible. Sylvia Earle
No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves. William Hazlitt
We now have the Black Lives Matter movement. I find that curious because this country is not quite the melting pot it’s purported to be. Black lives are unknown in some pla’ces. Jonathan Majors
The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities. Jose Rizal
Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty. Brian Greene
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. Wallace Stevens
Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown. Kiki Smith
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. Jim Morrison
I knew that no matter what door you knock on in a Cretan village, it will be opened for you. A meal will be served in your honor, and you will sleep between the best sheets in the house. In Crete, the stranger is still the unknown god. Before him, all doors and all hearts are opened. Nikos Kazantzakis
I’m an enigma, an unknown. You can’t really figure out what I’m going to do next. I like it like that. Emmitt Smith
On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us – ah! what a dream, to live in that! – the other stifles us at the first breath. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I’m so curious about knowing the unknown; it can be scary, but I see it as a game. Hrithik Roshan
I welcome the powers of the unknown. King Diamond
Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know. Mark Oliphant
We are gifted with freedom, but with that freedom comes the reality of the unknown and the responsibility to be aware of our surroundings and on guard against those who would do us harm. Mike Crapo
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars. Henry David Thoreau
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. Thomas Carlyle
Usually when I start a new project there’s a fear of the unknown; maybe it’s a band I’ve never been in the studio with before. People are so different. It’s almost like you need to go through the process, discover and unlock what it is that makes that band that band. And a lot of times they don’t know it. Rick Rubin
No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking. Voltaire
I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. Christopher Columbus
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. Thomas Huxley
To me, music is more like a spiritual seeking that takes one to unknown levels. Ilaiyaraaja
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate. O. Henry
Faith and doubt both are needed – not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. Lillian Smith
Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a ‘map’ for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project. Anne Grant
I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace. Bjork
All nature is but art unknown to thee. Alexander Pope
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another… and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world. Leonard Bernstein
Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to ‘gamble’ on an unknown. Zig Ziglar
I think equation guessing might be the best method to proceed to obtain the laws for the part of physics which is presently unknown. Yet, when I was much younger, I tried this equation guessing, and I have seen many students try this, but it is very easy to go off in wildly incorrect and impossible directions. Richard P. Feynman
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. H. P. Lovecraft
The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past. Simon Sinek
A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown. Tom Hanks
I would like to pass unknown in the company. I would like people to ask, ‘What did Maurizio Gucci do?’ And answer, ‘Nothing. Gucci was always like that.’ Maurizio Gucci
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. Denis Waitley
Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live. Ada Lovelace
Life inspires more dread than death – it is life which is the great unknown. Emil Cioran
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. Thich Nhat Hanh
As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal. Robin S. Sharma
I am very much aware of my own double self. The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work – he is in touch with the child. He is not rational; he is impulsive and extremely emotional. Ingmar Bergman
Inter is my second home and put their trust in me when I was an unknown. Javier Zanetti
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. Aldous Huxley
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself. Amos Oz
We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65 and 75. Dmitri Mendeleev
Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers. Howard Thurman
As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. Norman Foster
The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb. Frederic Chopin
With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world. Alfred de Musset
That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence. Leonard Nimoy
One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know. Eduardo Chillida
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. H. L. Mencken
The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it seems, no human foot has been. Richard Jefferies
For me, if the music is good, whether the artist is famous or unknown, I love being part of the music and contributing what I can to the bass end. Tony Levin
Always in all my books I’m trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown – and the pettiness of the big. Eduardo Galeano
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy. David Brooks
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know. Donald Rumsfeld
Throughout my career, my family and I have fallen victim to inappropriate attempts to contact me by several unknown individuals. Marvin Sapp
What really excites me is the unknown, and getting to grips with something you have no idea about. Ruth Wilson
All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown. William Harvey
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. James Baldwin
O thou great, unknown Power! Thou Almighty God, who hast lighted up reason in my breast and blessed me with immortality! I have frequently wandered from that order and regularity necessary for the perfection of thy works, yet thou hast never left me nor forsaken me. Robert Burns
