88 Great Unknown Quotes

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Famous Great Unknown Quotes

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. — John Wesley Powell

The unknown is where we go to find new things and intuition is how we find them. — Viola Spolin

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. — Rene Magritte

The future is unwritten. — Joe Strummer

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one. — Krzysztof Kieslowski

The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. - Martin Buber

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. — Martin Buber

The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity. — Ilya Prigogine

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising. — Alan Rickman

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. - Carl Sagan

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. — Carl Sagan

We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth. — Travis Rice

Creative exploration [is] impossible, without (humble) acknowledgement of the unknown. — Jordan Peterson

Embrace the unknown and embrace change. That’s where true breakthroughs happen. — Jensen Huang

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. - Jacob Bronowski

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. — Jacob Bronowski

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us. — George Eliot

Short Great Unknown Quotes

  • Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen — Hamza Yusuf
  • Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time. — Leo Buscaglia
  • Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful. — Oscar Wilde
  • The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be. — Maria Montessori
  • There is no certainty; there is only adventure. — Roberto Assagioli
  • There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Expect the unexpected. — Bear Bryant
  • We'll never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. — Travis Rice

Great Unknown Image Quotes

Great unknown quote Silence is a source of great strength.
Silence is a source of great strength.

Unknown Powerful Quotes

Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body. — Wassily Kandinsky

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man. — Pat Paulsen

Faith is the ability to have trust in powers greater than yourself, to confidently stride into the unknown, and to believe in your own abilites-no matter what. — David Wolfe

Great unknown quote Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.

The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities. — Maria Montessori

The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient. — Benoit Mandelbrot

Love makes you empty - empty of jealousy, empty of power trips, empty of anger, empty of competitiveness, empty of your ego and all its garbage. But love also makes you full of things which are unknown to you right now; it makes you full of fragrance, full of light, full of joy. — Osho

Great unknown quote Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met. — W. Clement Stone

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown. — Li Ka-shing

And just like you, I will die at some unknown date in the future. I just come equipped with a few extra powers. (Sebastian) I see. I’m a Toyota. You’re a Lamborghini.(Channon) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression… I feel an affinity for art when it was made a form of existence, like when shamans worked in the territory between men and unknown powers… I try to bewitch the crowd. — Magdalena Abakanowicz

Unknown Quotes

Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness. — Henri Nouwen

The fear of death is far greater than the death itself. But the fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all! — The Undertaker

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. - Corrie Ten Boom

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. — Corrie Ten Boom

Great unknown quote Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing. — Georgia O'Keeffe

As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. — Norman Foster

Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step. - Muhammad Ali

Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step. — Muhammad Ali

Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory. — Angela Merkel

To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk. — Mark Rothko

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

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More Great Unknown Quotes

Great unknown quote Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventuall
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

The unknown is always great. — American Proverbs

Every day I watched how a bare metal frame, rolling down the line would come off the other end, a spanking brand new car. What a great idea! Maybe, I could do the same thing with my music. Create a place where a kid off the street could walk in one door, an unknown, go through a process, and come out another door, a star. — Berry Gordy

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

Great unknown quote You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. — Ella Maillart

Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell which lures me, the need of freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on----in quest of the secret which is hidden over there----beyond the horizon? — Eugene O'Neill

I have always been interested in the paranormal and afterlife, everything from ghosts to angels. I think that everyone has that curiosity of the great unknown. — Hilary Duff

Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held. — Joshua Chamberlain

You don't fear change. You fear the unknown. If you knew the future would be great, you'd welcome the change to get there. Well, the future IS great. Proceed. — Joe Vitale

It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here. — Luci Swindoll

Women, even more than the working class, is the great unknown quantity of the race. — Keir Hardie

Every great move forward in your life begins with a leap of faith, a step into the unknown. — Brian Tracy

We are a great country, and whatever choice we make we will still be great. But I believe the choice is between being an even greater Britain inside a reformed EU or a great leap into the unknown. — David Cameron

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. — Emile M. Cioran

Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes. — Charles Lindbergh

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

Everyone who comes within the reach of your knowledge is, as it were, on trial in your mind. It is easy to be an unjust, ignorant, and even a merciless judge. The real character of the actions of others depends in great measure on the motives that prompt them, and these motives are unknown to you. — Lawrence G. Lovasik

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. — Carl Sandburg

Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination. — Rebecca Solnit

A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination. — Rebecca Solnit

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. — Charles De Gaulle

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object. — Roland Barthes

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous. — Benjamin Franklin

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

James was truly an unknown quantity. He was really, physically drained in the spring and he got dinged in the fall. We brought him along slowly, but he has a great future. He's a natural receiver. — Terry Hoeppner

As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us, they rise where they are least expected; they fail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to call them forth. — Edmund Burke

When you do a television show in the States, you get the pilot, and then it's the great unknown. That's the way it is. It's this great leap of faith. It's the Russian roulette of art. — Jeremy Piven

Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life. — Yann Martel

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support. — Osho

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it! — Joseph Roux

I've learned that it is what I do not know that I fear, and I strive, outwardly from pride, inwardly from the knowledge that the unknown is what will finally kill me, to know all there is to be known about my airplane. I will never die. — Richard Bach

There are two great unknown forces today, electricity and woman, but men can reckon much better on electricity than they can on woman. — Josephine K. Henry

Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights. — Walter Ulbricht

Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art. — Semir Zeki

Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders - those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips. — Newell Dwight Hillis

Where lies are easily admitted, the father of lies is not easily kept out. Source unknown A great leader molds public opinion, a wise leader listens to it. — Unknown

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair. — Unknown

Each small act of kindness reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of the good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it is passed, until simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. — Dean Koontz

That man is great, and he alone,Who serves a greatness not his own,For neither praise nor pelf:Content to know and be unknown:Whole in himself. — Edward George BulwerLytton

He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention. — Alexander Volkov

Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain. — Paul Daniels

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