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Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown." -- Chris Crutcher
A known mistake is better than an unknown truth" -- Arabic Saying
Words make known. But we live in the unknown." -- Marty Rubin
Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact." -- Mark Spitz
We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways." -- Bram Stoker
Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown." -- Kiki Smith
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown." -- Claude Bernard
Love, is an unknown passion, for an unknown person, for an unknown reason." -- Hamza Hassan Sheikh
I was born StrangerI will die StrangerUnknown is my nameUnknown is my country." -- Santosh Kalwar
Since the future is unknown, in every step forward we walk to the unknown!" -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man." -- John Fowles
The unknown is just as unknown as the ability to discover the known inside it." -- Ben Midland
It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown." -- Iris Murdoch
She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast." -- Joseph Conrad
I die in sleep, and sleep is death and death is unknown, and unknown is God." -- Michael Bassey Johnson
For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten." -- Anita Brookner
We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe." -- Carlos Castaneda
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception." -- Aldous Huxley
I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown." -- Philip K. Dick
In love marriages, you at least know your partner. A known devil is better than an unknown one!" -- Mona Singh
Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn't have to." -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Every second is a moment before the unknown. Only the now is known. Life is a continuous known unknown." -- Jarod Kintz
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors." -- William Blake
Happiness is achieved by flowing with the known and the unknown within you, being in a state of simplified simplicity." -- Paul Andreas Wunderlich
You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself." -- Ella Maillart
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown." -- Rene Magritte
Science and Truth are simple phenomenon of nature, but it is the known that is preventing us from mastering the unknown." -- Chandrakanth Natekar
The known was so depressing, it was hard to feel anxious about the unknown, and so searching for something else seemed natural." -- Addison Lane
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
Petronius was surely right in saying Fear made the gods. In primitive times fear of the unknown was normal; gratitude to an unknown was impossible." -- Petronius
Those who are afraid of what comes after death because it is unknown may tend to be those who cannot face the unknown in life." -- Robert E. Neale
Let's sum up: an unknown number of enemies with unknown capabilities, supported by a gang of madmen, packs of attack animals, and superhumanly intelligent pocket change." -- Jim Butcher
The unknown is not what to be afraid of, it's only when the unknown becomes known that one can decide whether to be afraid or not." -- Markus Peterson
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
Shall we educate ourselves in what is known, and then casting away all we have acquired, turn to ignorance for aid to guide us among the unknown?" -- Michael Faraday
Truth is, something exists, and everything exists for a reason. Regardless if the reason is known or unknown, knowable or unknowable, reason exists and can be named." -- John K. Brown
For one last time, I said my goodbyes to the place I'd known as home for the last decade, and for the first time, I welcomed the unknown." -- Nicole Sobon
The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography." -- David Crystal
She made up prayers and said them,Worshipping unknown gods with unknown singing,Her customary magic, which would coverThe white moon's face and darken the sun with cloud." -- Ovid
Now may every living thing, young or old,weak or strong, living near or far, known orunknown, living or departed or yet unborn,may every living thing be full of bliss." -- Anonymous
Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the depths of self, and all of humankind." -- Madelaine Standing
Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. AndI, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, oftennot. Life is a dream surely." -- Virginia Woolf
We might have known from the first that human curiosity is undying, and that the results we announced would be enough to spear others ahead on the same age-long pursuit of the unknown." -- H. P. Lovecraft
No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science." -- Robert G. Ingersoll
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." -- Thomas Henry Huxley
We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us." -- Guy Laliberte
Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives." -- Philip Yancey
The fear of an unknown never resolves, because the unknown expands infinitely outward, leaving you to cling pitifully to any small shelter of the known: a cracker has twelve calories; the skin, when cut, bleeds." -- Caroline Kettlewell
It made the woman feel like a thousand seas had come together from all worlds, like faraway lands had been bridged together, and the vastness of the known and the unknown were somehow easier to comprehend." -- M.C. Sburlea
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
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 of the universe; which means endless." -- Anne Rice
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
I don't think God puts us on this earth so we can be afraid of stepping into the unknown. Isn't tomorrow an unknown even if we all stay right here where tradition is kept and every piece of ground is familiar?" -- Cindy Woodsmall
The uncertainty, the fear of the unknown was driving him, almost to the point of desperation. He felt as if he was going down a dark stairway, missing a step, hurtling into the unknown and having no idea where he would land." -- Ken Puddicombe
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos." -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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
A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful." -- Frederick William Robertson
If he shrugs his shoulders, it is because he is no fool. He knows that once men are caught up in an event they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known." -- Antoine De Saint Exupéry
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
When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe." -- M. Night Shyamalan
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries" -- Richard Dawkins
Going into a marriage,is like jumping into unknown river with a lot of fishes. It is better to study the characters ofthe fishes that habits the unknown river,before getting into it.When you get so encited to go into the unknown river because you love swimming,the fishes in the river might be hungry PIRANHAS." -- Peter Irabor
How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown." -- Athol Fugard
First, it is largely unknown just how the Holy Spirit interacted with the author of an original Biblical manuscript- 'passive' vs. 'active' (I contend that it was both/and). Secondly, it is also widely unknown just what the 'process' involved in 'canonization' was. Additionally, I see little evidence of the injection of personal bias if any by the Biblical authors." -- R. Alan Woods
In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn't have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out." -- Dick Gephardt
The worst part is the unknown. The pain of being alone, the loneliness, is familiar. You've dealt with that. You understand it. But loving someone, risking everything, is unknown. There's no way to know how bad it's going to be. You barely survive the pain of being alone, so how can you deal with anything worse? So you don't bother to try." -- Susan Mallery
What is illusion?M.: To whom is the illusion? Find it out. Then illusion will vanish.Generally people want to know about illusion and do not examineto whom it is. It is foolish. Illusion is outside and unknown. Butthe seeker is considered to be known and is inside. Find out whatis immediate, intimate, instead of trying to find out what is distantand unknown." -- Ramana Maharshi
It is no sign of benediction to have been obsessed with the lives of saints, for it is an obsession intertwined with a taste for maladies and hunger for depravities. One only troubles oneself with saints because one has been disappointed by the paradoxes of earthly life; one therefore searches out other paradoxes, more outlandish in guise, redolent of unknown truths, unknown perfumes..." -- Emil Cioran
This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors" -- Winston Churchill
Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales?If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness." -- Maya Angelou
Move from the known to the unknown. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
to early seen unknown...and known to late -- William Shakespeare
Every journey has a destination, known or unknown. -- Dean Koontz
Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown. -- Chris Crutcher
I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks. -- Jorge Luis Borges
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Art is a step in the known toward the unknown -- Khalil Gibran
Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact. -- Mark Spitz
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there? -- Harold Pinter
Research; the curiosity to find the unknown to make it known. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Fear is not of the unknown, but of loss of the known. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. -- Corrie Ten Boom
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. -- Thomas R. Pickering
Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown. -- Margaret Mead
Inference is always an invasion of the unknown, a leap from the known. -- John Dewey
There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors. -- Jim Morrison
Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown. -- Claude Bernard
Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown. -- John Stuart Mill
Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown. -- George Shinn
Falling in love makes the unknown known. Falling out of love reverses the process. -- Glen Duncan
What is known might sometimes sustain us, but what is unknown will save us. -- Shannon Huffman Polson
When we step out into the unknown that is when God is made known. -- Rich Wilkerson Jr.
It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown. -- Iris Murdoch
Love is subsequent to knowledge and to the thing known, for nothing unknown is loved. -- Nicholas of Cusa
Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown. -- L. Ron Hubbard
One can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known. -- Eliphas Levi
For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten. -- Anita Brookner
Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known. -- Anthony de Mello
The unknown is just as real as the known and must be made to look so. -- Graham Sutherland
A good problem statement often includes what is known, what is unknown, and what is sought. -- Edward Hodnett
We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe. -- Carlos Castaneda
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. -- Aldous Huxley
The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown. -- Seneca the Younger
We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known. -- Anthony de Mello
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Intelligence looks for what is known to solve problems. Creativity looks for what is unknown to discover possibilities. -- Simon Sinek
In love marriages, you at least know your partner. A known devil is better than an unknown one! -- Mona Singh
It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings. -- Benjamin Graham
Loving service anonymously given may be unknown to man-but the gift and the giver are known to God. -- Thomas S. Monson
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Science was the known and then people would place God in the unknown, like God explained the unknown. -- Larry Wilmore
You cannot travel to the known; because all travels are towards the future and the future is unknown! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible -- Deepak Chopra
There are known knowns and known unknowns, but what we should be worried about most is the unknown unknowns. -- Gary Marcus
Most people talk about fear of the unknown, but if there is anything to fear, it is the known. -- Deepak Chopra
We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look. -- Anne Lamott
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. -- Wallace Stevens
I myself have never been concerned with whether we are considered known or unknown. It's, it's no problem of mine. -- Malcolm X

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