Unknowable Quotes

104 Unknowable quotes by 91 unique authors

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. — Leonard Bernstein
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. — Ambrose Bierce
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise. — Thornton Wilder
Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable. — Leonard Bernstein
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
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
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
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
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
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
God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible. — Leo Strauss
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. — Leo Strauss
It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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
In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable. — Pete Hamill
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
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
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

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