I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know. — Darcey Steinke Copy Share Image
“At the heart of all truth lies a radiant cloud of unknowing, a glorious nugget of doubt, a shining core of impermanence.” — James K. Morrow Copy Share Image
Booze is flowing all unknowing; grandma downs a few, smiles and giggles happily enjoying her new brew. — Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire Copy Share Image
Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“An exercise in unknowing is not the same as not knowing or forgetting.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst.… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Any company run by unknowing and mechanistic minds is in jeopardy and faces a limited life. Specifically, the pursuance of policies that… — Peter Cochrane Copy Share Image
The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
You don't fear change. You fear the unknown. If you knew the future would be great, you'd welcome the change to get… — Joe Vitale Copy Share Image
This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When I write, I don't know what is going to emerge. I begin in a condition of complete unknowing, an utter nakedness… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it;… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
“The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in the latter half of the 14th century. The text… — Geerhardus Vos Copy Share Image
Trinity!! Higher than any being, any divinity, any goodness! Guide of Christians in the wisdom of heaven! Lead us up beyond unknowing… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
Perhaps - and this goes for the Kyoto School too - one of these insights is that nothingness and unknowing don't have… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
“Unknowing, or agnosia, is not ignorance or absence of knowledge as ordinarily understood, but rather the realization that no finite knowledge can… — Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite Copy Share Image
I pray we... come to this darkness so far above light! If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see,… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
“I came into the unknown and stayed there unknowing rising beyond all science. I did not know the door but when I… — St. John of the Cross Copy Share Image
The life I walk binds my hands it makes me take things that I don’t understand I walk this dark world unknowing… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
“...the past, like the future, is dark. There is so much we don't know, and to write truthfully about a life, your… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Come unto me. Come unto me, you say. All right then, dear my Lord. I will try in my own absurd way.… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The wise man will say I don't know and the unknowing fool will answer. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Each of them, all unknowing, fairly gives its due to each chance of life, to each germ of death within itself.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The whole pleasure of being in a state of unknowing is that as long as you don’t know, all possible outcomes feel… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Who knows about another's love? The more you love the more you know the burnt out loss of love, the more you… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image