Never explore the unknown if you want life to stay predictable and monotonous.
Never explore the unknown if you’re happy living within clearly defined boundaries.
Do explore the unknown if you’re ready to grow as a person, to explore new ways of living, and to seek out what’s calling you.
We’re conditioned from childhood to be afraid of what we don’t know, to stick to what’s safe and familiar.
The world is a dangerous place, they say.
The following quotes about the unknown shed light on how exploring new territory can lead to a richer, more fulfilling life.
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
Parting Words
The unknown can be frighening, but it can also be exhilarating.
I’ve found that it’s a process of desensitization. The first time, stepping out and facing what you’re afraid of is hard. But each subsequent time it gets ever-so-slightly easier.
Hopefully these quotes about the unknown will give you the confidence to go on your next venture.
What’s your favorite quote about the unknown from the list? Let me know in the comments!
P.S. Liked this? You might also enjoy these related quote collections:
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- Quotes About Exploration
- Quotes About Dreams and Reality
- Quotes About Walking That Speak to the Flâneur in You
Originally published January 30, 2021. The date of the last significant edit is reflected at the top of the post.
