unknown aspects Quotes

I don't think that we really know a whole lot about Barack Obama at all that you would really call distinctive.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

Discover how little you know about the people you know.

You don't really get to know people behind the scenes. One can assume that it's out there, but I have no idea at the end of the day. I hope not.

I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that make them human, and it made me feel sad to think that, but sad in that reassuring way that some sadness has, a sadness that says welcome home in twelve different languages.

In each of us there is another whom we do not know.

We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.

You can sit next to somebody on the underground, and you can look at them quite intensely, but you can never, ever know what they're wearing under their clothes.

I think there are pieces of me you've never seen.

You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.

you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece

The idea that we should write towards the unknown aspects of our experience was totally groundbreaking for me. It gave me the license I needed to try to write outside myself. This attitude has deeply informed my approach to fiction, emboldening me to write characters with voices or situations that are vastly different from my own.

We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself.

Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of the unknown have from the first been captured and formalised by conventional religious rituals, it has fallen to the lot of the darker and more maleficent side of cosmic mystery to figure chiefly in our popular supernatural folklore.

Marriage is referred to in the bible as “mystical union,” and it really is in the sense that two people who don’t know each other get together. I’m always interested in how much you find out about the other person and how much you don’t find out.

We all have names we don't know about.

What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.

It was funny, though, the things you didn't learn about people until after they died.

What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.

There's this other half of him I don't know of, it's like he is trying to keep it a secret... if he would just let me inside so I can help.