Jim Morrison Quotes

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

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before.

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

I don't know what's on the other side.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.

What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

Things that are unknown attract us.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world

I'll never know everything. My life would be a lot worse if there was nothing I knew the answers about - and if there was nothing I didn't know the answers about.

I think that we all absolutely have curiosity. It brings about knowledge. It's energizing. It's spiritually empowering. It makes us more interesting as people.

There's the know. And there's the unknown. And what separates the two is the door, and that's what i wanta be. Ahh wanna be th' dooooooooorrr...

As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.