Unknown Quotes - page 2

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me dye; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lye. (Alexander Pope)
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot. View quote
Alexander Pope
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. View quote
Wallace Stevens
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless, a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. View quote
Claude Bernard
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. View quote
Arthur Eddington
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. View quote
Corrie Ten Boom
Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more. View quote
William Cowper
Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown. View quote
John Buchan
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown. (Thomas Mann)
The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which mankind is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshiped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers. View quote
Kenneth Clark
Gone before To that unknown and silent shore. View quote
Charles Lamb
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. View quote
Jim Morrison
I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England did I know till then; What love I bore to thee. View quote
William Wordsworth
She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me. View quote
William Wordsworth
... lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and ... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to "walk about” into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want? View quote
Wassily Kandinsky
I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this view by reason of this great river Ozama, and by this sea which is fresh. View quote
Christopher Columbus
Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light. View quote
Franz Kafka
Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company's stock price. View quote
Alex Berenson
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. (Eugenio Montale)
Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before. View quote
Cornelia Funke
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. View quote
Denis Waitley
You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. View quote
Ella Maillart
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. View quote
Frederick Sanger
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