Unknown Quotes

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 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

I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

~ Haley Joel Osment

We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.

~ Lillian Russell

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

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

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

~ Joan D. Vinge

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.

~ Giambattista Vico

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

~ Ella Maillart

If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

~ Lillian Smith

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

~ Norman Foster

It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost.

~ Lyle Lovett

Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.

~ Bruce Catton

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

~ Kiki Smith

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

~ Stephen Gardiner

You can't have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

~ Brian Eno

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

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.

~ June Jordan

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

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

What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.

~ Jenny Mccarthy

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

~ Simon Sinek

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

~ Alan Rickman