#unknown

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

Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself. ↗

— Amos Oz

#coastal #conflicts #eight #far #fiery

Do we really want to be rid of our resentments, our anger, our fear? Many of us cling to our fears, doubts, self-loathing or hatred because there is a certain distorted security in familiar pain. It seems safer to embrace what we know than to let go of it for fear of the unknown. (Narcotics Anonymous Book/page 33) ↗

— Narcotics Anonymous

#fear-of-unknown #narcotics-anonymous #resentment #anger

Things yet unknown will change the way you think. ↗

— Toba Beta

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

A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. ↗

— Kathie Lee Gifford

#fear #keeps #leaving #lot #people

That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings so tied together by common needs and fears that a twitch at one wrist jerks another, where however strange your experience other people have had it too, where however far you travel in your own mind someone has been there before you - - is all an illusion. We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#illusion #unknown #world #experience

I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.' And he replied, 'Go into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way! ↗

— Minnie Louise Haskins

#christianity #faith #fear #fear-of-failure #fear-unknown

You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your immediate colleagues if you can answer their simple questions when they come into your office. You are not nameless to me. Do not remain nameless to yourself — it is too sad a way to be. Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#imagination

Coincidences link us to the unknown and weave us into it. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#inspiration #metaphysical #paranormal #supernatural #synchronicity