Unknowable Quotes
104 quotes by 91 authors
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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
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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
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The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.
— W. Edwards Deming
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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Novels shouldn’t aspire to answer questions, and I wouldn’t presume to offer advice about love or marriage in any case. What’s fascinating to me about…
— Nell Freudenberger
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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
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Something was comforting about strangers—it seemed like they would exist forever as the same, unknowable mass.
— Megan Boyle
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Some people spend their entire lives devoted to a religion that claims to be the ‘right’ religion... they often deny scientific evidence that contradicts their…
— David G. McAfee
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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
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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
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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
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The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.
— Winston Churchill
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