Overcoming The Unknown Quotes & Sayings

But we're no longer rain, I said, we're no longer seeds. We're men. Now we can stand and decide. This is our first chance to choose our own unknown. I'm so proud of everything we've done, my brothers, and if we're fortunate enough to fly and land again in a new place, we must continue. As impossible as it sounds, we must keep walking. And yes, there has been suffering, but now there will be grace. There has been pain, but now there will be serenity. No one has been tried the way we have been tried, and now this is our reward. — Dave Eggers

It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will to doubt can be just as powerfully sapped by an internal sense that societal conventions must have a sound basis, even if we are not sure exactly what this may be, because they have been adhered to by a great many people for a long time. It seems implausible that our society could be gravely mistaken in its beliefs, and at the same time, that we would be alone in noticing the fact. We stifle our doubts, and follow the flock, because we cannot conceive of ourselves as pioneers of hitherto unknown difficult truths. It is for help in overcoming our meekness that we can turn to the philosopher. — Alain De Botton

As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it. — Will Durant

Middle Eastern cuisine has the same depth of ingredients and processes as other cuisines. They just haven't had as much exposure. — Yotam Ottolenghi

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education. — Mark Twain

Your family is depending on you. No better reason to bring all your game all the time. — Grant Cardone

There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people. — Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal. — L. Ron Hubbard

I'm not a liberal, I'm a radical! — Mort Sahl