Unknowable Quotes

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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
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
Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. The forces… — W. Edwards Deming
The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable. — W. Edwards Deming
Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us. — Florida Scott-Maxwell
If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to… — Leslie Stephen
"It is essential to understand this point thoroughly: that the thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral, is not only unknowable-it does not exist. This is… — Alan Watts
The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the… — Adam Gopnik
You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Novels shouldnâ€™t aspire to answer questions, and I wouldnâ€™t presume to offer advice about love or marriage in any case. Whatâ€™s fascinating to me about… — Nell Freudenberger
Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of… — Megan Chance
Something was comforting about strangersâ€”it seemed like they would exist forever as the same, unknowable mass. — Megan Boyle
Some people spend their entire lives devoted to a religion that claims to be the â€˜rightâ€™ religion... they often deny scientific evidence that contradicts their… — David G. McAfee
It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty, death, and disease… — David G. McAfee
If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river… — Laozi
To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth! — Friedrich Nietzsche
The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope. — Winston Churchill

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