#unknow

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#best #divest #many #men #never

Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#better #fact #known #than #unknown

I'm at the depot, and I'm not going anywhere. That's better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is they don't want to fail. They don't want to pay the price unless there's a guarantee they're going to get there. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#better #deal #depot #fail #get

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. ↗

— Leo Strauss

#capacity #highest #man #then #theoretical

God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible. ↗

— Leo Strauss

#fundamental #god #premise #therefore #unknowable

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics. ↗

— Quintus Ennius

#down #english #friend #i #i am

Things yet unknown will change the way you think. ↗

— Toba Beta

#way-of-thinking #yet-unknown #change

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death

...don't be afraid of going by a way you've never gone - that's the way we're all going... ↗

— John Geddes

#life #purpose #unknown #way #death

He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it. ↗

— William Golding

#fear #sleep #the-unknown #death