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1. “So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Adventure, Unknown, Fate, Exploration, Last Words

2. “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”

Aldous Huxley

Knowledge, Unknown, Perception, Consciousness, Human Experience, Philosophical Insight

3. “Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.”

Marcel Proust

Reality, Unknown, First Step, Progressing Road, Existential Journey, Uncharted Path

4. “You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!”

Hermann Hesse

Afraid, Harmony, Unknown, Self-acceptance, Societal Fear, Inner Exploration

5. “Through the Unknown, we’ll find the New.”

Charles Baudelaire

Exploration, Discovery, Poetic Unknown, Unknown, Discovery

6. “I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.”

Sylvia Plath

Madness, Helplessness, Unknown, Solitude, Epiphany, Acceptance

7. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.”

Herman Melville

Adventure, Exploration, Discovery, True Places, Maps, Unknown

8. “As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.”

Robin Sharma

Comfort Zone, Personal Growth, New Normal, Fear, Unknown, Change

9. “There is no security in following the call to adventure.”

Joseph Campbell

Adventure, Risk, Courage, Unknown, Change, Self-discovery

10. “The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel – but who?”

Isaac Asimov

Invention, History, Innovation, Discovery, Unknown, Legacy

11. “We’re forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can’t be understood.”

Isaac Asimov

Unknowable Edge, Endless Exploration, Unknown, Understanding, Exploration, Mystery

12. “It’s always easy to explain the unknown by postulating a superhuman and arbitrary will.”

Isaac Asimov

Superhuman Explanation, Arbitrary Unknown, Unknown, Superhuman, Explanation, Mystery

13. “It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Tears Mystery, Emotion, Sorrow, Grief, Heartache, Unknown

14. “When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Mystery, Obedience, Fear, Power, Unknown, Surrender

15. “Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Fear, Unknown, Courage, Facing Fears, Growth, Life

16. “Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Fear, Unknown, Courage, Adventure, Life, Experience

17. “Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?”

Victor Hugo

Divine Death, Mortal Rights, Death, God, Rights, Unknown

18. “The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.”

Victor Hugo

Future Courage, Names Opportunity, Future, Courage, Unknown, Opportunity

19. “The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing.”

Rainer Maria Rilke

New Experience, Shy Silence, Unknown Entry, Experience, Silence, Unknown