Unknowable Quotes
104 Unknowable quotes by 91 unique authors
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Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
— Leonard Bernstein
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years with your lives…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that. One…
— Martin Amis
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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
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All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses…
— G. Stanley Hall
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I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the unknowable, transcending reason,…
— Gerhard Richter
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It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic, came down to…
— Barack Obama
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Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
— Thornton Wilder
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Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
— Leonard Bernstein
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It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.
— Donald Rumsfeld
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How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright…
— Carl Jung
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The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To…
— Roger Zelazny
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My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple…
— Rene Magritte
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The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be,…
— Parmenides
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But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one…
— Stevie Smith
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God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.
— Leo Strauss
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If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
— Leo Strauss
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It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable.
— Pete Hamill
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It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world…
— E. Haldeman-Julius
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Researchers argue that it's of utmost importance to unravel the nature of black holes, lest we someday begin to worship them. Sounds ridiculous, but whole…
— Eric Chaisson
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There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of…
— Marianne Wiggins
Who Wrote These Unknowable Quotes
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