#unknown

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#ardor #boredom #excites #known #scholars

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#came #each #everyone #going #great

Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most. ↗

— Philippe Halsman

#asked #asking #before #camera #celebrated

Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#completely #contact #continuous #except #gave

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#leading #road #towards #unknown

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

— Radha Mitchell

#i #now #sort #unknown #working

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

#continual #continually #daily #disease #elements

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

— Jim Morrison

#i #i believe #i believe in #long #obtain

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

— Alfred de Musset

#let us #out #set #unknown #us