Top 414 Unknown Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Unknown Quotes from famous people such as Kenneth Lay, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Frederic Chopin, Radha Mitchell, Nathaniel Philbrick, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.
Kenneth Lay
If you look at the story of ‘The Get Down,’ it’s the story of young people, unknowns thrown together by their resources, trying to create something.
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.
Frederic Chopin
I’m not working now, so I’m sort of facing the unknown.
Radha Mitchell
For me, ‘Moby-Dick’ is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual – the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
Nathaniel Philbrick
When we made ‘Toy Story,’ journalists were more interested in talking about the technique because it was so new and unknown, and we just wanted to talk about the story.
Lee Unkrich
When I started doing things on my own, I was figuring – remember, it was a very nascent market. And there was a lot that was unknown about the renewable marketplace in 2004, early 2003, when I was planning on it.
Vinod Khosla
We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.
Lillian Russell
I love being in the world of the unknown.
Alison Krauss
I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.
Samantha Bee
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas Carlyle
That’s just what I want to do: Create a path that’s unknown. It’s hard in this business and this world we live in to trail-blaze. To create something different and do your own thing is hard nowadays. That’s what I want to do. I want to take these matches to a whole new level and break that bar.
Roman Reigns
I’m so curious about knowing the unknown; it can be scary, but I see it as a game.
Hrithik Roshan
As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.
Robin S. Sharma
We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.
Robin S. Sharma
The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.
John Wesley Powell
Every television show is sentenced to death – time and date of execution unknown.
Larry Wilmore
Tinkering is a way of understanding difficult problems, of wrapping our heads around them and quantifying the unknowns.
Gever Tulley
When we have learnt through a period of finely honed training to live in Imaginative Thinking, when we can engage the whole of our being in this Imaginative Thinking, we find that it immerses us in a reality hitherto unknown to us.
Rudolf Steiner
I find age such a foreign concept. I have to be reminded. I still have the extraordinary feeling of adventure, striking out into unknown fields.
William Shatner
In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn’t know anyone unknown who didn’t become famous.
Michael Caine
Science is about exploring the unknown and cannot offer guarantees.
Virginia Postrel
That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.
Leonard Nimoy
When I was a kid, I loved ‘The Curse of Frankenstein,’ ‘The Creeping Unknown,’ ‘X: The Unknown.’ I love ‘Forbidden Planet,’ ‘The Thing from Another World.’ They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.
John Carpenter
I think there’s a certain paranoia about science because there is a certain risk related to science which people are very wary about, and therefore, there is an inherent risk aversion to science and technology or, at least, science and technology of unknown.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
‘Sharp Objects’ was scary, unknown territory for me. I wouldn’t pick this kind of material to direct if you just gave me the book. Amy Adams was the force that drove me in.
Jean-Marc Vallee
I think people need something to believe in, because they don’t want to have control over their own lives. They’d rather be able to blame it on an unknown being, or a greater god, or a greater spirit of sorts. And I think it’s easier for them to blame it on that.
Sasha Grey
I’m a child of the Earth, postcode unknown.
Nathan Phillips
Scientists suggest that the link between consuming poultry and cancer spread may be due to carcinogens in cooked meat. For unknown reasons, these carcinogens build up more in the muscles of chickens and turkeys than in those of other animals.
Michael Greger
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
People go on exploration; they're trying to find places

People go on exploration; they’re trying to find places that weren’t known before. But it is an inevitable fact of research, as is in any other form of exploration of the unknown, that some people find they go down a dead end.
Mark Walport
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
Corrie Ten Boom
Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.
Brian Greene
In a world of oversharing, we don’t want to be unknown or unseen. We don’t want to be left out.
Meghan Daum
If you fall in love with a woman, there’s this unknown thing that gives you a force and energy, and music is like that, too. If I lived to be 2000, I’d never know anything about music. And that’s great.
Allan Holdsworth
When we were unknown, you don’t get a lot of bad feedback. Now, we get people bad-mouthing us all the time, but it’s all part of the game.
Martie Maguire
It was a dreamlike time for me from December 1997 to March of ’98. Before that, I was basically unknown. Then, bang! The starting gun fired, and everybody just started running. It was learn-on-the-job. And there were more opportunities for work than I had time to do them.
Ben Affleck
Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet.
Lynn Abbey
Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means… nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can.
Rupert Sheldrake
Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.
Bryant H. McGill
If you crave a bit of adventure and the unknown, Singapore is not for you.
Fiona Bruce
We have 100 genes or so, which we know we can’t knock out without killing the cell, that are of unknown structure.
Craig Venter
You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.
Ella Maillart
We are the shadow of Sirius. There is the other side of – as we talk to each other, we see the light, and we see these faces, but we know that behind that, there’s the other side, which we never know. And that – it’s the dark, the unknown side that guides us, and that is part of our lives all the time. It’s the mystery.
W. S. Merwin
To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I won’t want to.
Charles Palliser
I want to conquer the unknown. I really, really want to live on the water and captain my own boat. I have dreamed of going around the world on a boat.
Suze Orman
A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations.
Kathie Lee Gifford
That’s what makes live TV exciting – the unknown!
Marc Platt
Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man!
Jules Verne
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier – the frontier of the 1960’s – a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils – a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
John F. Kennedy
Sometimes I get a little exhausted by shows or movies that are constantly throwing famous people on. And I find it so much more exciting to not have that when I’m watching something. I think it allows you to get more lost in something and also to bring more attention to more unknown or less recognizable people.
Tig Notaro
I love Unknown Mortal Orchestra, who are from New Zealand, living in Portland.
John Gourley
Throughout my career, my family and I have fallen victim to inappropriate attempts to contact me by several unknown individuals.
Marvin Sapp
We now have the Black Lives Matter movement. I find that curious because this country is not quite the melting pot it’s purported to be. Black lives are unknown in some pla’ces.
Jonathan Majors
When I joined WKRC, they were very concerned over my ability to ad lib or speak extemporaneously, which was an unknown factor up until that point.
Waite Hoyt
I don’t know if I would say that I’m specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that’s bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don’t have all the answers for.
Oren Peli
As a philosopher, I’m not obliged to explore every unknown wilderness.
Harry Frankfurt