For the entrepreneur, the adventurer, the traveler, we have to be okay with not knowing what’s going to happen next. We have to be willing to take risks and venture into the unknown.
If you agree, these quotes are for you! From Ancient Greek philosophers to modern-day thought Leaders, this collection of quotes captures the essence of what it means to take risks and venture into the great unknown. So read on, be inspired, and get out there and explore!
Quotes About the Unknown
“It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.”
Seneca
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
Aldous Huxley
“Being at easy with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.”
Eckhart Tolle
“I am going into an unknown future, but I’m still all here, and still while there’s life, there’s hope.”
John Lennon
“A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.”
Tom Hanks
“The unknown is too vast to live in known unhappiness.”
Russell Eric Dobda
“If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.”
Bryant H. McGill
“It’s much easier to work with an unknown.”
Taylor Hackford
“Writing is a journey into the unknown.”
Charlie Kaufman
“It’s actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you’ll be okay.”
Alan Cumming
“Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities.”
Deepak Chopra
“The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.”
Rene Magritte
“We are sickened by the unknown, but knowledge can prove poisonous.”
Steven Erikson
“I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.”
Sylvia Earle
“Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.”
George S. Patton
“There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.”
Elias Canetti
“Do not fear the unknown, dare to be adventurous in life.”
Lailah Gifty Akita
“How can we live without the unknown before us?”
Rene Char
“Most people talk about fear of the unknown, but if there is anything to fear, it is the known.”
Deepak Chopra
“It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.”
Wallace Stevens
“The unknown is always frightening.”
Naveen Andrews McGill
“The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.”
Simon Sinek
“You must be fearless to travel on the journey of unknown.”
Lailah Gifty Akita
“Fear not the unknown. It is a sea of possibilities.”
Tom Althouse
“We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.”
Lillian Russell
“Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.”
Brian Greene
“Fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all.”
Yvon Chouinard
“We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.”
Arthur Eddington
“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
“Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.”
Joan D. Vinge
“One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.”
Eduardo Chillida
“Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.”
Claude Bernard
“You’ve got to bumble forward into the unknown.”
Frank Gehry
“It’s the unknown that draws people.”
E.A. Bucchianeri
“All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.”
William Harvey
“Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.”
Edgar Albert Guest
“There’s always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.”
Nate Silver
“It is good to love the unknown.”
Charles Lamb
A Final Word
The unknown can be scary, but it can also be exhilarating. These quotes about the unknown will help you embrace the adventure that comes with venturing into the unknown. What’s your favorite quote from the list? Leave a comment and let us know.
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