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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 there he will sleep, the man in between. -- Neil Diamond
The Senate is an unknowing world -- Robert Caro
Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing. -- T. S. Eliot
Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown. -- Philip Roth
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought. -- John Dryden
I think unknowing is the most important theological idea for me. Unlearning the things you think you know. -- Darcey Steinke
Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures? -- Frank Herbert
One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot. -- Henry Rollins
When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope. -- Jennifer Stone
We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing. -- Mother Teresa
I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst. To move the perimeter of saying outside my own boundaries is one reason I write. -- Jane Hirshfield
Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this unknowing lures and attracts you from all understood things, and from yourself as well. -- Meister Eckhart
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 decompose into stones of unknowing, and conceptual crystallizations break apart into deposits of gritty reason. -- Robert Smithson
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 goal. A word appears, another word appears, an image. It is a moving into mystery. -- Jane Hirshfield
He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance. -- Aldo Leopold
We are conjured voiceless out of nothing and must return to an unknowing state. What happens in between is an uncontrolled dance, and what we ask for in love is no more than a momentary chance to get the steps right, to move in harmony until the music stops. -- Louise Erdrich
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 be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours? -- Samuel Daniel
The worst predijudice is unknowing. We think we treat others as equals, but, in our deepest heart, we regard ourselves as superior. In part, this is because we are, in ways, powerful. But that does not make the race of humans (funanga) better than that of the dog or equine. -- Isobelle Carmody
Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful falsities, an elegant liar? I shall grapple with that perplexity, only to emerge as I went in, in a cloud of unknowing, if perhaps a little the wiser. -- Eva Brann
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 our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting. -- Sue Monk Kidd
I think we have to trust ourselves in the darkness of not knowing. The God out of which we came and into which we go is an unknown God. It's the luminosity of that darkness and that unknowing that is, I think, the most human - and the most sacred - place of all. -- Sam Keen
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity. -- Maya Angelou
Unknowing ignorance is preferable to informed stupidity. -- Brandon Sanderson
It hurts how life goes on, unknowing. -- Cynthia Lord
Honoring a life is honoring the wide open space of wilderness and unknowing where the sacred dwells. -- Shannon Huffman Polson
Booze is flowing all unknowing; grandma downs a few, smiles and giggles happily enjoying her new brew. -- Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire
[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge. -- Meister Eckhart
I recognize the unknowing, involuntary effect that 'Facts of Life' had and continues to have on several generations of people. -- Kim Fields
The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all. -- Isaac Asimov
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. -- Maya Angelou
The whole pleasure of being in a state of unknowing is that as long as you don't know, all possible outcomes feel as if they are happening. -- John Green

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