A Quote by M. Scott Peck

Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.

M. Scott Peck

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Adventures Frightening Going Invariably Learn New Only Through Unknown

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M. Scott Peck
American - Psychologist
May 22, 1936 - September 25, 2005

When we aren't collectively imagining hopeful futures, then the way things are going almost invariably seems negative and frightening.

Mohsin Hamid

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

Robin S. Sharma

Is this what it is to get older, to have adventures you can no longer tell your family because you are moving apart from them?...Or do you grow up and have adventures you tell no one? Are some adventures only yours alone?

Polly Horvath

I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.

Diana Nyad

There's something frightening that comes with freedom. And there was something very frightening for a lot of slaves once they were free and were going through Reconstruction. It was like, what do you do now? There was nothing set up.

Sterling K. Brown

We human beings get nervous if we don't know what's going on. It's the rule for creating scary stories: the unknown is always more frightening than the known.

Naomi Alderman

Fear of the unknown... They are afraid of new ideas... They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but based on... "If something is new, I reject it immediately because it's frightening to me." What they do instead is just stay with the familiar. You know, to me, the most beautiful things in all the universe, are the most mysterious.

Wayne Dyer

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

Pearl S. Buck

We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.

Robin S. Sharma

We travel because, no matter how comfortable we are at home, there's a part of us that wants - that needs - to see new vistas, take new tours, obtain new entrees, introduce new bacteria into our intestinal tracts, learn new words for "transfusion," and have all the other travel adventures that make us want to French-kiss our doormats when we finally get home.

Dave Barry

I just wanna go on more adventures. Be around good energy. Connect with people. Learn new things. Grow

Kid Cudi

We know only that our entire existence is forced into new paths and disrupted, that new circumstances, new joys and new sorrows await us, and that the unknown has its uncanny attractions, alluring and at the same time anguishing.

Heinrich Heine

The unknown is always frightening.

Naveen Andrews

Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.