Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
People remain unknowable to us, even people that we're very close to. And I think the same goes for our own selves. — Katie Kitamura 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
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
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops — Anonymous 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
It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot 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
“She was completely inside herself, and I realized I'd never seem her that way- unknowable and unknown. Exactly the way I felt.… — Scott Hutchins Copy Share Image
We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were… — Miranda July 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“We are ultimately unknowable to ourselves and others. Our past and future are mostly unknowable. God is unknowable. For the present the… — Michael Krasny Copy Share Image
Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.” — Leila Sales 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
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable. — Gautama Buddha 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
