Unknowing Quotes
41 quotes by 37 authors
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Booze is flowing all unknowing; grandma downs a few, smiles and giggles happily enjoying her new brew.
— Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire
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If you, unknowing, are able to create masterpieces in color, then unknowledge is your way. But if you are unable to create masterpieces in color…
— Johannes Itten
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When I write, I don't know what is going to emerge. I begin in a condition of complete unknowing, an utter nakedness of concept or…
— Jane Hirshfield
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The Senate is an unknowing world
— Robert Caro
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Any company run by unknowing and mechanistic minds is in jeopardy and faces a limited life. Specifically, the pursuance of policies that focus on cost…
— Peter Cochrane
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Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions. As soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and…
— Jacqueline Winspear
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A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also…
— Yayoi Kusama
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He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
— John Dryden
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The fact is that the more we take flight upward [to God], the more our words are confined to the ideas we are capable of…
— Pope Dionysius
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I pray we... come to this darkness so far above light! If only we lacked sight and knowledge so as to see, so as to…
— Pope Dionysius
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Trinity!! Higher than any being, any divinity, any goodness! Guide of Christians in the wisdom of heaven! Lead us up beyond unknowing and light, up…
— Pope Dionysius
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And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall…
— Samuel Daniel
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One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas…
— Robert Smithson
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Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.
— Philip Roth
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The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and…
— Neil Diamond
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Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law --…
— Clarice Lispector
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Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws…
— Ben Okri
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