Unknowable Quotes

104 Unknowable quotes by 91 unique authors

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
I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else,… — Chuck Palahniuk
It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the… — Maya Angelou
We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. — Isaac Asimov
Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before. — Robin McKinley
History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't… — Kim Stanley Robinson
He would not let her go. Even though, staring into her open eyes in the swirling salt-filled water, with sun flashing though each wave, he… — Elizabeth Strout
I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad… — Kay Redfield Jamison
I believe that God—if he exists at all—is what we want him to be. The true God is unknowable, and so we dress him up… — Michael Thomas Ford
It seems to me to be true that heavens are placed in the sky because it is the unreachable. The unreachable and therefore the unknowable… — Zora Neale Hurston
I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that… — Lynn Barber
all the gods are the same unknowable mystery, just as each face of a jewel strikes light in a different direction — Kate Constable
Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the… — Kate Morton
Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit,… — Mary Gaitskill

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