and it is hard to let go, to imagine alternatives, but you…

“Are you ready to explore what it takes to move beyond where you are to where you want to be? You came to the…

— Susan C. Young

“Things you let yourself imagine happening, never do happen.”

— Dodie Smith

“But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Unknowing, or agnosia, is not ignorance or absence of knowledge as ordinarily understood, but rather the realization that no finite knowledge can fully know…

— Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

— Meister Eckhart

“I’m not sure of anything,” she said. “Which is almost wonderful.”

— Peter Heller

The whole pleasure of being in a state of unknowing is that as long as you don’t know, all possible outcomes feel as if…

— John Green

Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity.

— Brandon Sanderson

“Come unto me. Come unto me, you say. All right then, dear my Lord. I will try in my own absurd way. In my…

— Frederick Buechner

I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look…

— Ernest Hemingway

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing.…

— Jennifer Stone

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal…

— Maya Angelou

Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions. As soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path…

— Jacqueline Winspear

I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst. To move…

— Jane Hirshfield

“Who knows about another's love? The more you love the more you know the burnt out loss of love, the more you heed the…

— Anne Rice