#unknow

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

#complex #else #emotion #everything #fear

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#explain #knowing #terms #theology #unknowable

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#centuries #explaining #terms #theologians #unknowable

We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65 and 75. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#atomic #between #discovery #elements #example

I'm not working now, so I'm sort of facing the unknown. ↗

— Radha Mitchell

#i #now #sort #unknown #working

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

— George S. Patton

#how #in the past #others #past #prepare

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

#befall #complete #confidence #faith #fear

Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers. ↗

— Howard Thurman

#brothers #cannot #coming #community #feed

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

— Alan Rickman

#sort #surprising #think #unknown #wonderful

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor. ↗

— William Adams

#captain #carried #company #done #emperor