"You cannot know wine by the barrell." — George Herbert

More Cannot Know Quotes

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• We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know… — Wendell Berry
• We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it. — Claude Shannon
• What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know. — Bertrand Russell
• Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do… — Marianne Williamson
• Parents of handicapped children are occasionally embarrassed or hurt by others who awkwardly express sympathy but cannot know or appreciate… — James E. Faust
• Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot… — Henri Poincare
• We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot… — Jules Renard
• Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere. — Seneca the Younger
• If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are… — John B. S. Haldane
• I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be… — Bertrand Russell
• It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The… — John Steinbeck
• There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ...… — Roger Bacon

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