Been Quote by H. L. Mencken

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

— H. L. Mencken

all the gods are the same unknowable mystery, just as each face of a jewel strikes light in a different direction

— Kate Constable

“I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.”

— John Dufresne

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

— Leonard Bernstein

“The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our first limitations.…

— Sri Aurobindo

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

— Leo Strauss

“Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.”

— Leila Sales

There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as…

— Daniel Dennett

“If the essence of things is unknowable, the misery of man cannot be fathomed.”

— Herman Bavinck

There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one…

— Marianne Wiggins

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

— Leonard Bernstein

The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.

— David Lynch