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There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.
Donald Rumsfeld

Known, Unknowns

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.
Jim Morrison

Between, Known, Doors

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

Truth, Fear, Wish

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
Corrie Ten Boom

Trust, God, Future

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
Jim Morrison

Long, Order, Senses

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
Pope John Paul II

Faith, Fear, Moving

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
John F. Kennedy

Today, Stand, Hopes

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.
Denis Waitley

Life, Future, Become

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
Henry David Thoreau

Great, Men, True

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
Aldous Huxley

Between, Perception, Known

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
Chuck Palahniuk

Big, Problems, Lives

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
George S. Patton

Past, Others, Studying

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
Voltaire

Power, Feeling, Thinking

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

Fear, Everything, Else

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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. Henry

True, Fate, Goes

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Live, Single, Born

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
W. Clement Stone

Success, Time, Great

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

Faith, Doubt, Working

The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
Victor Hugo

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas Carlyle

Work, Good, Done

Failure is a word unknown to me.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
William Wordsworth

Mind, Acting, Times

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
Ambrose Bierce

Learned, Soul, Genius

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Men, Afraid, Once

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Men, Once, Known

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
James A. Baldwin

Face, Mystery, Oneself

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Alexander Pope

Men, Taught, Forgot

All nature is but art unknown to thee.
Alexander Pope

Nature, Art, Thee

I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Heart, Past, Him

Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.
Anne Grant

Confusion, Sense, Hopeless

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