#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

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

— H. L. Mencken

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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

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The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns. ↗

— Gretchen Mol

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True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#few #initiated #know #only #owner

The Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has the, continual threat for life; it's got the thread of Indians; it's got disease. It has daily risk where these men may go under the water. It's got the fight with the elements. It's got the el the role of the unknown continually threatening them. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

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

— Jim Morrison

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With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world. ↗

— Alfred de Musset

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