Cannot Know Quotes

164 quotes by 133 authors

When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that work is a… — Madeleine L'Engle
The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing… — Richard M. Weaver
I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can… — Igor Stravinsky
We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us. — Wilkie Collins
I failed on a climbing problem eight times before realizing I was climbing as high as I knew I could and then letting go. On… — Royal Robbins
As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know… — Alfred Russel Wallace
The natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit, and he cannot know them, for they are foolishness unto him. — Emma Curtis Hopkins
A specter is haunting the cinema: the specter of narrative. If that apparition is an Angel, we must embrace it; and if it is a… — Hollis Frampton
Statement of Being. There is one Mind, and I AM that Mind. That Mind is eternal, and it is Life. I am that Mind, and… — Wallace D. Wattles
It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and… — Mahatma Gandhi
Godâ€™s will and desireâ€”His pleasureâ€”is that we love Him. We cannot please God unless we love Him. We cannot love Him unless we know Him,… — Myles Munroe
But you cannot know a place without loving it and hating it and feeling everything in between. You cannot understand a complex people by only… — Silas House
Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be… — Barbara Johnson
We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space,… — Harold Bloom
Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become… — Bertrand Russell
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. — Wendell Berry
The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no comfort in knowing… — David Ebershoff
It is imperative that the past of the pilgrims' progress be intentionally carried forward into the present as we work into our future. Without it… — H. Richard Niebuhr
As long as I am content to know that He is infinitely greater than I, and that I cannot know Him unless He shows himself… — Thomas Merton
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. — William Butler Yeats

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