The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.” — Leila Sales Copy Share Image
Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable. — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Copy Share Image
“I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.” — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“I try to be one of the exceptional people who can live with the complexity of things, who are at peace with… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
“In order to know someone who is at some level unknowable, you must leave yourself wide open. If you don't, you foreclose… — Camilla Gibb Copy Share Image
“Religion, by its very nature as an untestable belief in undetectable beings and an unknowable afterlife, disables our reality checks. It ends… — Greta Christina Copy Share Image
“Ralph Gomory, the President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, proposes a tripartite division of science: the known, the unknown, and the… — Joseph Traub Copy Share Image
We ought not to believe those who today, adopting a philosophical air and with a tone of superiority, prophesy the decline of… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thing about perfection is that it is unknowable, it's impossible, but its also right in front of us, all the time — Kevin Flynn Copy Share Image
I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
