You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.
People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
The most important measures are both unknown and unknowable.
You are not just fighting one opponent. You are fighting the unknown.
What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.
I chose life over death for myself and my friends. . . I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.
The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown to Japanese, particularly of the younger generation.
The unknown is always interesting.
Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
Innovation comes only from an assault on the unknown.
For some unknown reason, success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs in full view.
In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in The Kingdom of This World.
Humans always have fear of an unknown situation -- this is normal. The important thing is what we do about it. If fear is permitted to become a paralyzing thing that interferes with proper action, then it is harmful. The best antidote to fear is to know all we can about a situation.
This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.
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.
You have to beat your own problematic imagination to discover what it is you're saying and how to say it and move forward into the unknown.
Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.
All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask.
Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.