Great Unknown Quotes

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching

  Gerard Way

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Travel, Laughter

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.8, Bantam

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• One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Adventure, Journey

  Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.

  Muhammad Ali

  Beginners, Firsts, Steps

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• I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Travel, Inspirational Life, Moving

  Travels with a Donkey "Cheylard and Luc" (1879)

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Summer

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• I have always been interested in the paranormal and afterlife, everything from ghosts to angels. I think that everyone has that curiosity of the great unknown.

  Hilary Duff

  Angel, Thinking, Afterlife

  "Exclusive: Hilary Duff Talks about Elixir". Interview, www.seventeen.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Change makes us confront the great unknown. It introduces different things into our lives. Different places. Different ideas. Different people. It's all hard to accept at times, and change can often be a little scary. But if there's one fact that I've learned from raising a family, from running several businesses, from serving in Congress and now as Governor, it's that nothing has ever grown without changing.

  Bob Riley

  Change, Running, Different Ideas

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• Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Fear, Inspire, Dread

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• The great unknown in this country is where this leaves the Republican Party after this election. Will it be the party of the Kochs or will it be the party of [Donald] Trump?

  Jane Mayer

  Country, Party, Election

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Women, even more than the working class, is the great unknown quantity of the race.

  Keir Hardie

  Race, Class, Quantity

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• At the time of birth an ordering takes place. The awarenesses come together; they become specific until a person dies. At that point all those awarenesses, all that you have ever been or will ever be, go back again, into the great unknown.

  Frederick Lenz

  Together, Birth, Awareness

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• Tormented by conflicting feelings, I appealed to reason ; and it is reason which, amid so many dogmatic contradictions, now forces the hypothesis upon me. A priori dogmatism, applying itself to God, has proved fruitless: who knows whither the hypothesis, in its turn, will lead us? I will explain therefore how, studying in the silence of my heart, and far from every human consideration, the mystery of social revolutions, God, the great unknown, has become for me an hypothesis, I mean a necessary dialectical tool.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Mean, Heart, Silence

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1888). “System of Economical Contradictions: Or, The Philosophy of Misery”

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• When you do a television show in the States, you get the pilot, and then it's the great unknown. That's the way it is. It's this great leap of faith. It's the Russian roulette of art.

  Jeremy Piven

  Art, Leap Of Faith, Television

  "Jeremy Piven Talks MR. SELFRDIGE, Similarities Between His Characters Harry Selfridge and Ari Gold, Plus Fans’ Desire to See an ENTOURAGE Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 14, 2013.

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• The dictionary describes a selfish person as one who is 'concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking pleasure or well-being without regard for others.' May we add, a selfish person is often one who refers to 'I,' 'me,' and 'mine' rather than to 'we,' 'ours,' 'yours,' or 'theirs.' This person is anxious to be in the limelight, to be on center stage in life's little dramas. He or she may be a poor listener, or a conversation monopolizer. Selfishness is the great unknown sin. No selfish person ever thought himself to be selfish.

  H. Burke Peterson

  Drama, Selfish, Add

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• 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

  Moving, People, Horizon

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.86, Vintage Canada

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• The last great unknown, in terms of physiological training, is the optimum length of a piece. Is three minutes enough? Is ten minutes too much? No one knows. Perhaps someday the question will be answered-we'll find out that thirteen minutes is the perfect length for a training piece when preparing for a 2000 meter race. Until then, coaches will continue exploring the whole scale, up and down, from thirty seconds to sixty minutes and more, in hopes of capturing the optimum time.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Race, Sixty Minutes, Perfect

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• A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there's a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith. The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else, trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer's intent. How childish to think that could be easy.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

  "Brava, Valentine: A Novel". Book by Adriana Trigiani, March 16, 2010.

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• Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  God, Philosophy, Philosopher

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