And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown. " And he replied: "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way. "
Vermont tradition is based on the idea that group life should leave each person as free as possible to arrange his own life. This freedom is the only climate in which (we feel) a human being may create his own happiness. . . . Character itself lies deep and secret below the surface, unknown and unknowable by others. It is the mysterious core of life, which every man or woman has to cope with alone, to live with, to conquer and put in order, or to be defeated by.
The scientist … must always be prepared to deal with the unknown. It is an essential part of science that you should be able to describe matters in a way where you can say something without knowing everything.
Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.
I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to surrendor the movements of one's soul to the unknown complexities of another's. A willingness, not simply to be moved, but to be remade.
A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.
A good problem statement often includes what is known, what is unknown, and what is sought.
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.
Whatever is unknown is magnified.
Everywhere man is in disguise! Who is who is unknown! Try to enter the mask and find out who the man inside really is!
It's tricky to be such an independent person, from Canada. It doesn't matter how incredible your work is, if you're an unknown person and you're from Toronto, people's eyes glaze over immediately as soon as you introduce yourself.
If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.
Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.
Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.
But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9.