Knowable Quotes

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For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A universe in which… — Carl Sagan
In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to… — Lincoln Steffens
We are apt to think we know what time is because we can measure it, but no sooner do we reflect upon it than that… — Robert Morrison MacIver
Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present. — Deepak Chopra
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them. — Rudolf Virchow
You will find scientists who will tell you â€” and they deeply believe it â€” that weâ€™re quantifiable. We are knowable. That if I can… — Jad Abumrad
Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose… — Carl Jung
Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God. — Karl Marx
We're emphasizing the knowable by predicting how certain people and companies will swim against the current. We're not predicting the fluctuation in the current. — Charlie Munger
Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your… — Rose Tremain
The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable. — Hilary of Poitiers
A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its… — Anne Carson
I have been using the word 'other' as though it were self-explanatory, yet who the 'other' is must always be something of a mystery. It… — Stephanie Dowrick
Sometimes that whys aren't knowable, so you just have to ignore the whys, and just focus on what is and move on. — Carrie Jones
This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I'm not a religious man... I find I am a fan of science. I believe in science. A humility before the facts. I find that… — Hugh Laurie
I think that reality exists and that it's knowable. — Jimmy Wales
The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has… — Lincoln Steffens
We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a… — Giordano Bruno

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