Cannot Know Quotes

164 quotes by 133 authors

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if… — Wendell Berry
We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it. — Claude Shannon
What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know. — Bertrand Russell
Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves. — Marianne Williamson
Parents of handicapped children are occasionally embarrassed or hurt by others who awkwardly express sympathy but cannot know or appreciate the depth of the parents… — James E. Faust
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts since… — Henri Poincare
We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting… — Jules Renard
Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere. — Seneca the Younger
If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result of the chemical… — John B. S. Haldane
I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and… — Bertrand Russell
It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does… — John Steinbeck
There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ... Of these sciences the gate… — Roger Bacon
The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal… — E. M. Forster
I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra. — Nicolas Malebranche
The main problem with those who deny the existence of God is not intellectual. It is not because of insufficient information, or that God's manifestation… — R C Sproul
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain… — Thomas Merton
These are only outer symptoms. Death is the transfer of the soul from one body to another body, or in cases when a man is… — Rajneesh
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study… — Nicolas Chamfort
The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world.… — Roger Bacon

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