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Unknowable Quotes

We’ve collected the best Unknowable Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Zygmunt Bauman, H. L. Mencken, Rhys Ifans, Sam Esmail, Elizabeth Gilbert. Use them as an inspiration.

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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
2
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
H. L. Mencken
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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
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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
H. L. Mencken
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The world is so heavily influenced by technology, and it has started to feel like it’s not on solid ground. The world has become unreliable, unknowable. Facts are vulnerable, and things you have come to rely on are no longer there.
Sam Esmail
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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
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I do like the idea that tomorrow I might find out that I’m going to be doing something that is completely unknowable today. I think it forces you to live in the moment in a very good way.
Paul Rudd
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Billions of people around the globe had come to know Barack Obama, had heard his words, had watched his speeches, and, in some unknowable but irreducible way, had come to see the world as a place that could – in some incremental way – change.
Ben Rhodes
9
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
Leo Strauss
10
I think it’s a wonderful fact about Judaism – at least about the approach to Judaism I most relate to: There are no universal answers. We don’t have it all figured out. God is unknowable.
Darin Strauss
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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
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‘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
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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