The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.

I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel.

— Linda Barnes

all the gods are the same unknowable mystery, just as each face of a jewel strikes light in a different direction

— Kate Constable

We have people we admire, like Einstein, saying mystery is the most beautiful thing a human being can experience. Yet, everywhere in our culture,…

— Mark Rylance

“I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.”

— John Dufresne

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

— Leonard Bernstein

“The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our first limitations.…

— Sri Aurobindo

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

— Leo Strauss

“Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.”

— Leila Sales

There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as…

— Daniel Dennett

“If the essence of things is unknowable, the misery of man cannot be fathomed.”

— Herman Bavinck

There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one…

— Marianne Wiggins

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

— Leonard Bernstein

“Identity confusion... is as if somebody lost their mental road map and has no appreciation of who they are or what is going on…

— Richard A. Chefetz

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

“Our lives were limitless and unknowable, not perfect, but ours.”

— Brenna Yovanoff