Knowable Quotes
42 quotes by 37 authors
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I remember one of my last shows, the Final Jeopardy! clue was something like 'These two boys' names are top 10 boys' names in the…
— Ken Jennings
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The pictures remind you of something that can never be recaptured, the time is gone, the only thing you know is the present. That's all…
— William Shatner
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I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.
— Eric Schmidt
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Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing…
— Tony Kushner
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History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always…
— Bill Watterson
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In formulating any philosophy the first consideration must always be: What can we know? That is, what can we be sure we know, or sure…
— Woody Allen
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
— Plotinus
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I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about the secrets…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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...What is more like love than the ocean? You can play in it, drown in it...it can be clear and bright enough to hurt your…
— Deb Caletti
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The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to…
— Tom Robbins
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To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are…
— John Green
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There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be…
— John Green
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There is only one reality - the reality knowable to reason. And if man does not choose to perceive it, there is nothing else for…
— Nathaniel Branden
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The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is how we all…
— Jeanette Winterson
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No matter your spiritual beliefs, if you hold any, the answer is the same: sometimes, why is not knowable. If you open the refrigerator door…
— Augusten Burroughs
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Is Knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know?
— Woody Allen
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The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty…
— Richard Shweder
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality,…
— Nancy Pearcey
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