Unknowable Quotes

104 Unknowable quotes by 91 unique authors

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics.… — Michael Crichton
Now I am the unknown, the unknowable. — Maggie Stiefvater
i feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and sharp, and unknowable. — Lauren Oliver
Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according… — Melissa de la Cruz
Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love… — Ben Elton
The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her. — David Nicholls
Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of, you… — Deb Caletti
Time goes too quickly. This is the advice that my mother should have given me from her hospital bed. Instead of vague, unknowable quips like… — Kristin Hannah
I'd always disparaged the games people played in pursuit of love--or the next hook up. The whole thing was a competition to see who could… — Tammara Webber
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot… — Carl Sandburg
Nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those… — Carlos Castaneda
We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we… — Miranda July
One world on its own is a strange enough seethe of coiling, unknowable veins of intention and chance, but two? Where two worlds mingle breath… — Laini Taylor
The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and… — Neil Gaiman
If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container… — Rebecca Stead
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure… — Daniel Dennett
We are born spiritual creatures, with a body to feel and a mind, to fathom the unknowable. — Nelly Mazloum
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a world where everybody said, 'We don't know?' The fact is that you're surrounded -God and you don't… — Anthony de Mello
That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious… — Chris Abani
Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes. — Barry Ritholtz
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. — H. L. Mencken
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
The true God is the unknown God to the natural man and also the unknowable God without His revelation in Christ. God is not only… — Eugene Reuweler

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