Unknowable Quotes

104 quotes by 91 authors

Love Is the Treasure The temple of love is not love itself; True love is the treasure, Not the walls about it. Do not admire… — Unknown Author
Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. — Carl Sandburg
The greatest losses are unknown and unknowable. — W. Edwards Deming
To say that we cannot know anything about God is to say something about God; it is to say that if there is a God,… — J. Budziszewski
The most important measures are both unknown and unknowable. — W. Edwards Deming
Life is a vast, unknowable movement of wholeness with no one separate from it and nothing outside of it. — Toni Packer
Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about.… — Zhuangzi
Think then what it is to live on here eternally and yet be human; toage in soul and see our beloved die and pass to… — H. Rider Haggard
Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if not for no… — Tom Robbins
The thing about perfection is that it is unknowable, it's impossible, but its also right in front of us, all the time — Kevin Flynn
The world you experience, every day and night of your life, is transient. They only last for the blink of an eye, and then they… — Frederick Lenz
The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed.… — Edward Abbey
The scientist knows that the ultimate of everything is unknowable. No matter What subject you take, the current theory of it if carried to the… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz
As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical… — Abraham Robinson
The meaning and the purpose behind some events are unknowable. This is the ultimate test of our faith. We must trust that everyone in life… — Tony Robbins
A true religion will have the humbleness to admit that only a few things are known, much more is unknown, and something will always remain… — Rajneesh
But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. — H. L. Mencken
'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a… — Michael Sheen
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops — H. L. Mencken

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