Unknowable Quotes

104 Unknowable quotes by 91 unique authors

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 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
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 strangers—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 ‘right’ 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
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

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