Unfamiliar Concepts Quotes

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.

I routinely interview college students, mostly from top schools, and I notice that their brains are like old maps, with lots of blank spaces for the uncharted terrain. It's not that they lack for motivation or IQ. It's that they can't connect the dots when they don't know where the dots are in the first place.

Society sometimes discovers facts that society has a hard time getting used to.

Live shows have been going on for so long, can you really do something that's never been done before?

A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel.

A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced

Agents and publishers are always looking for something 'different,' a fresh viewpoint and a new voice, not just re-hashed versions of stuff that's gone before.

It's always difficult when you want to do something really new, and you also want it to reach the masses, because the majority of people want to see what they've already seen before, or that they're already familiar with. To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't have discouragement, because I don't think anybody knew what that meant.

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

I'm always looking for something new and interesting to say. And it can't be something I'm directly experiencing.

People are afraid of detail and complexity.

Often, I hear my ideas are more incomprehensible than not.

Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

You read so many scripts, especially pilots, that really feel like marbles in your mouth when you go to read them out loud.

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

When a possibility is unfamiliar to us, we do not even think about it.

New ideas seem like frightening ghosts to people at the beginning; they run away from them for a long time.

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.

Alien ideas are just as dangerous to us as the aliens themselves, no matter how plausible.

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.