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All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery. By J.g. Holland Mystery Things Unrevealed Belong Kingdom

There are known knowns, things we know that we know; and there are known unknowns, things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don't know. By Donald Rumsfeld Things Unknowns Unknown

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. By Arthur Schopenhauer Inexplicable Fundament Knowledge Learning Rests

Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like. By Noam Chomsky Mysteries Face Ignorance Divided Problems

The unknown is my compass By Anais Nin Compass Unknown

Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery. By Chet Raymo Knowledge Mystery Island Surrounded Sea

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it! By Philibert Joseph Roux God Great Philosophers Call Unknown

A problem is a solution yet to be discovered By Marc Torra Discovered Problem Solution

I am visible and immutable - carefully hidden behind a secret, secret. I By Anonymous Secret Immutable Carefully Visible Hidden

There is a part of everything which is unexplored,because we are accustomed to using our eyes only in association with the memory of what people before us have thought of the thing we are looking at. Even the smallest thing has something in it which is unknown. By Guy De Maupassant Thing Part Unexploredbecause Accustomed Eyes

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know. By Eduardo Chillida Unknown Call Lies

The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable! By Oscar Wilde Uneatable Unspeakable Pursuit

The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable. By Jean-Jacques Rousseau Knowable Thing Limit

There is something that is unexplainable, which no amount of money can buy. By Preeti Shenoy Unexplainable Buy Amount Money

We are unknown to ourselves, we knowers, and with good reason. We have never looked at ourselves. By Friedrich Nietzsche Knowers Reason Unknown Good Looked

A chaos so great and so obscure that nothing about it can be known'. By Niall Ferguson Chaos Great Obscure

Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do? By Rumi God Unknown

The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide to contemplative prayer. "Be willing to be blind, and give up all longing to know the why and how, for knowing will be more of a hindrance than a help." This 1912 edition was edited by Evelyn Underhill, and contains her introduction. By Geerhardus Vos Cloud Unknowing Christian Century Anonymous

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. By Daniel Dennett Limits Limit Things Completely Unknowable

Some things are more than we can understand. By Christie Watson Understand Things

The unforeseen is the most beautiful gift life can give us. That is what we must think of multiplying in our domain. That is what should have been talked about in this assembly, and no one has said a word about it ... Art is inconceivable without risk, without inner sacrifice; freedom and boldness of imagination can be won only in the process of work, and it is there the unforeseen I spoke of a moment ago must intervene, and there no directives can help. By Boris Pasternak Beautiful Gift Life Give Unforeseen

It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge. By Mark Twain Occurred Thing Knowledge Mystery Hidden

What is unknown is the fulfillment of your own unique life, the likes of which has never existed on earth. And you are the only one who can do it. People can give you clues how to fall and when to stand, and when you are falling and when you are standing, this only you can know. And in the way of your own talents is the only way to do it. By Joseph Campbell Life Earth Unknown Fulfillment Unique

I am caught in this contradiction: on the one hand, I believe I know the other better than anyone and triumphantly assert my knowledge to the other ("I know you - I'm the only one who really knows you!"); and on the other hand, I am often struck by the obvious fact that the other is impenetrable, intractable, not to be found; I cannot open up the other, trace back the other's origins, solve the riddle. Where does the other come from? Who is the other? I wear myself out, I shall never know. By Roland Barthes Hand Intractable Contradiction Impenetrable Found

The knowledge of everything knowable is not yet wisdom By Franz Rosenzweig Wisdom Knowledge Knowable

What does it mean to be ,' he thought, 'except to be known? By David Malouf Thought

That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant. By Chinua Achebe Ignorant Surrounded Deep Mysteries Incurably

No idea with who has no idea By Nomoto Idea

The body of knowledge keeps increasing at incredible speed, but the literature of nonknowledge grows even faster. By Friedrich Nietzsche Speed Faster Body Knowledge Increasing

We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others. By Amy Tan Lost Unseen Unheard Hearing Unknown

Let some things remain mysterious. By H. Jackson Brown Jr. Mysterious Things Remain

Knowing yet not knowing is a strange sensation, like being split in two By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Sensation Knowing Strange Split

predictably unpredictable By Cecelia Ahern Predictably Unpredictable

Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place. By Martin Farquhar Tupper Unwelcome Knowledge Universe Things Stranger

Today we have discovered the word that could not be said. I By Ayn Rand Today Discovered Word

Is Knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know? By Woody Allen Knowledge Knowable

One can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known. By Eliphas Levi Define Unknown Supposed Supposable Relations

Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever. By George Berkeley Things Exist Whereof Whatsoever Aught

I know what I have given you ... I do not know what you have received. By Antonio Porchia Received

All I know is that I do not know anything By Socrates

Unheralded we came into this world. Unheralded we will go out. But while we are in this world, we do such deeds that even if this generation does not remember, the next generation cannot forget. By Vikas Swarup Unheralded World Generation Remember Forget

The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery. By Carlos Castaneda Incomprehensible World Secrets Mystery Understand

Some things are beyond human understanding. By Alexandra Adornetto Understanding Things Human

Even though there is something out there that is not the world-for-us, and even though we can name it the world-in-itself, this latter constitutes a horizon for thought, always receding just beyond the bounds of intelligibility. By Eugene Thacker Thought Intelligibility Constitutes Horizon Receding

Unmentioned, what is can become as though it were not. By Aldous Huxley Unmentioned

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. By Isaac Newton World Seashore Ordinary Whilst Boy

The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with the development of our knowledge. By Albert Einstein Secret Comprehensibility World Eternal Knowledge

O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple. By William Shakespeare Inscrutable Invisible Unseen Face Steeple

He who thinks that God is not comprehended, by him God is comprehended; but he who thinks that God is comprehended knows him not. God is unknown to those who know him, and is known to those who do not know him at all. By Alan W. Watts God Comprehended Unknown

I believe that much unseen is also here. By Walt Whitman Unseen

To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words ... the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language. the world of things we perceive is but a veil. It's flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable. It's silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fearfilling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder. By Abraham Joshua Heschel Aware Ineffable Part Company Words

There is something I do not know, the knowing of which could change everything. By Werner Erhard Knowing Change

The guesses which serve to give mental unity and wholeness to a chaos of scattered particulars, are accidents which rarely occur to any minds but those abounding in knowledge and disciplined in intellectual combinations. By John Stuart Mill Combinations Guesses Serve Give Mental

Long exasperated by questions without answers, by answers without consequences, by truths which change nothing, we learn to become intoxicated by the mood of mystery itself, by the odor of the unknown. We are entranced by the subtle scents and wavering reflections of the unimaginable. By Thomas Ligotti Answers Long Consequences Unknown Exasperated

The most important measures are both unknown and unknowable. By W. Edwards Deming Unknowable Important Measures Unknown

I am incapable of more knowledge. By Sylvia Plath Knowledge Incapable

[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge. By Meister Eckhart Knowing Knowledge Transformed Unknowing Ignorance

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible? By Johann Kaspar Lavater Invisible Imperceptible Knowledge Man Capable

If God is completely beyond our knowing, how can we know that he is unknowable? By Sadhu Sundar Singh God Knowing Unknowable Completely

Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished. By Gautama Buddha Explanation Finished Unspeakable

Well, let us say inexplicable. There is no point in using the word "impossible" to describe something that has clearly happened. But it cannot be explained by anything we know. By Douglas Adams Impossible Inexplicable Word Happened Point

Something mysterious ... but By Fyodor Dostoyevsky Mysterious

What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown. By Marcel Proust Decipher Efforts Elucidate Clear Looked

The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that. By Socrates Thing

God stands revealed or remains forever unknown. By Bruce R. Mcconkie God Unknown Stands Revealed Remains

the knowable community - to By Raymond Williams Community Knowable

I don't even know what I don't even know, By Ron Mael

We are opaque mysteries to ourselves and one another. By Stanley Hauerwas Opaque Mysteries

When the atheist is told that God is unknowable, he may interpret this claim in one of two ways. He may suppose, first, that the theist has acquired knowledge of a being that, by his own admission, cannot possibly be known; or, second, he may assume that the theist simply does not know what he is talking about. By George H. Smith God Unknowable Atheist Told Interpret

For the moment we might very well call them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere). Recent By Bill Bryson Dunnos Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable

In the world I amAlways a strangerI do not understand its languageIt does not understand my silence By Bei Dao Understand Silence World Amalways Strangeri

The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable. By W. Edwards Deming Unknowable Important Figures Management Organization

Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected. By Mahatma Gandhi Untouchability Forms Detected Manyheaded Monster

We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. By Isaac Asimov Unknowable Understood Forever Teetering Brink

The unknown ... became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic and wholly extra-terrestrial reasons, and thus clearly belonging to spheres of existence whereof we know nothing and wherein we have no part. By H.p. Lovecraft Unknown Reasons Part Primitive Forefathers

When the unknown becomes known, we lose something very big: The beauty of mystery! By Mehmet Murat Ildan Big Mystery Unknown Lose Beauty

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity. By Jean-Henri Fabre Ignorance Feeling Abashed Confess Absolutely

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend. By Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Friend Incomprehensible Inexplicable

Everything that is not me is incomprehensible. By Louis Aragon Incomprehensible

In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion. By Haruki Murakami Inseparable Siamese Twins Existing Confusion

PUBLISHER'S NOTE To seize the knowledge of the UNKNOWABLE needs a language, which is at once symbolically creative, revealingly poetic, infinitely plastic, luminously rhythmic, automatic perception of right relations and their inevitable descent of truth of idea, word and action. By Maa Krishna Sri Aurobindo Note Unknowable Publishers Language Creative

Sometimes we are mysteries to ourselves. By Joshua Gaylord Mysteries

Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity. By Aleister Crowley Unspeakable Beauty Unity Variety Form

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable. By Rex Stout Unknowable Fools Philosophers Waste Time

Things are not as easy to understand and say as we might prefer to believe; most events are inexpressible, happening in a space where no word has ever set foot, and most inexpressible of all are works of art, mysterious existences, whose life continues as ours passes away. By Rainer Maria Rilke Inexpressible Things Happening Foot Art

Some are baffled, but that one is notthat one knows me.Ah lover and perfect equal,I meant that you should discover me so by faint indirections. By Walt Whitman Baffled Indirections Notthat Meah Lover

for the same things are not 'knowable relatively to us' and 'knowable' without qualification. So in the present inquiry we must follow this method and advance from what is more obscure by nature, (20) but clearer to us, towards what is more clear and more knowable by nature. By Aristotle. Nature Qualification Knowable Things Present

Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee. By Francis Thompson Thee World Invisible Intangible Unknowable

Knowledge is limited. By Albert Einstein Knowledge Limited

unknowns - all the things that transcended understanding, the miracles that pervaded individual lives and stretched back to a majesty spoken into existence, to a sacrifice that continued to resonate within our souls thousands of years later. A sacrifice based on adoption: he chose us, he loved us, then he died for the worst within us. By Sibella Giorello Unknowns Understanding Existence Sacrifice Things

Wonder is not precisely knowing. By Emily Dickinson Knowing Precisely

As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope. By Cameron Dokey Unknown Long Belongs Wellknown Thing

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know. By Donald Rumsfeld Things Unknowns Unknown

When the gods come among men, they are not known. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Men Gods

It is the mystery of the unknownThat fascinates us; we are children stillWayward and wistful; with one hand we clingTo the familiar things we call our own,And with the other, resolute of will,Grope in the dark for what the day will bring By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Wistful Resolute Bring Mystery Unknownthat

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten. By Anita Brookner Unknown Thing Forgotten

We cannot comprehend what comprehends us. By Wendell Berry Comprehend

No one can see me, no one knows me;All men are deaf, no ears disclose me By Taras Shevchenko Deaf Men Ears Disclose

What I cannot create, I do not understand. By Richard Feynman Create Understand

All I know is that I know nothing. By Socrates