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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. -- Ambrose Bierce
Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before. -- Robin McKinley
Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. -- Ambrose Bierce
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. -- Leonard Bernstein
God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible. -- Leo Strauss
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. -- H. L. Mencken
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. -- H. L. Mencken
It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable. -- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. -- Leo Strauss
Whereas Superman is a godlike guy from another planet and Batman is this mysterious, unknowable billionaire, everyone in 'Spider-Man' is human and flawed. -- Rhys Ifans
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
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 knell to love. -- Zygmunt Bauman
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 facts which are true but unknowable. -- Abraham Robinson
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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 or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out. -- Chris Abani
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. -- Rene Magritte
If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt. -- Leslie Stephen
Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and act as if they understand what's going on; and some are elected to high office on the basis of their ability to create this impression. -- Michael Leunig
But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
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 human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad. -- Michael Sheen
You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt for that. One flaw: sometimes, early on, she would tell me things designed to make me think less of my mother, and I would wave her away, saying, 'Jane, this just backfires and makes me think less of you.' -- Martin Amis
The unknowable creates the greatest controversies. -- Mason Cooley
Now I am the unknown, the unknowable. -- Maggie Stiefvater
The greatest losses are unknown and unknowable. -- W. Edwards Deming
Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder
The most important measures are both unknown and unknowable. -- W. Edwards Deming
Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. -- Leonard Bernstein
Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable. -- Rex Stout
The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is. -- David Lynch
The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope. -- Winston Churchill
The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable. -- W. Edwards Deming
While the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress. -- Barack Obama
Only he who crosses the stream of life wishes to know what is known as unknowable. -- Gautama Buddha
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Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. -- Carl Sandburg
Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable. -- Leonard Bernstein
I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee. -- Francis Thompson
That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors. -- Kate Morton
My painting is visible images that conceal nothing... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable. -- Rene Magritte
We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. -- Isaac Asimov
We are born spiritual creatures, with a body to feel and a mind, to fathom the unknowable. -- Nelly Mazloum
If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger. -- John Berger
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In the end, the only thing the true New Yorker knows about New York is that it is unknowable. -- Pete Hamill
Life is a vast, unknowable movement of wholeness with no one separate from it and nothing outside of it. -- Toni Packer
God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops -- 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
Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us. -- Florida Scott-Maxwell
The Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever-changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way. -- Robert M. Pirsig
I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel. -- Linda Barnes
Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn't that - just you - enough~? -- Leila Sales
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
I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable. -- Andrew Solomon
The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her. -- David Nicholls
The thing about perfection is that it is unknowable, it's impossible, but its also right in front of us, all the time -- Kevin Flynn
It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months. -- Donald Rumsfeld
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
How important to set aside time each day for the unknowable. How important to reach out: it doesn't matter that I don't yet believe. -- Sy Safransky
What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it. -- Warren Buffett
To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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 unknowable. -- Maya Angelou
We aren't haunted by the dead, but by the impossible reach of history. By how unknowable these others are to us, how unfathomable we'd be to them. -- Rebecca Makkai
Truth is, something exists, and everything exists for a reason. Regardless if the reason is known or unknown, knowable or unknowable, reason exists and can be named. -- John K. Brown
Truth is, something exists, and everything exists for a reason. Regardless if the reason is known or unknown, knowable or unknowable, reason exists and can be named." -- John K. Brown
Spirituality is man's conscious longing for God. Spirituality tells us that God, who is unknowable today, will tomorrow become knowable and, the day after, will become totally known. -- Sri Chinmoy
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 of us. I lived. -- Marianne Wiggins
For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable. -- Ken MacLeod
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 even were, maybe nobody is. -- Miranda July
One cannot be successful on visible figures alone ... the most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable, but successful management must nevertheless take account of them. -- W. Edwards Deming
Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it. -- Ayn Rand
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 coming down the lane with me, then. -- Neil Gaiman
Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable. -- Megan Chance
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 guides to the limit of what there is. -- Daniel Dennett
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 dissolve back into that unknowable and formless eternity. -- Frederick Lenz
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 dissolve back into that unknowable and formless eternity. -- Frederick Lenz
Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it. -- Andre Malraux
Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of the body while the masculine has signified culture and mental activity. -- Whitney Chadwick
Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection. -- Zhuangzi
The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticism emerges, complete with its package of contradictions and non-sensical utterances. -- George H. Smith
By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse rÃ©sumÃ© to prepare for a completely unknowable future. Come what may, he's ready-for nothing in particular. -- Peter Thiel
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 to your mysterious and unknowable workings of the universe. -- Melissa de la Cruz

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