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The unknown is my compass
Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery.
Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!
A problem is a solution yet to be discovered
I am visible and immutable - carefully hidden behind a secret, secret. I
One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable!
The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.
There is something that is unexplainable, which no amount of money can buy.
We are unknown to ourselves, we knowers, and with good reason. We have never looked at ourselves.
A chaos so great and so obscure that nothing about it can be known'.
Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?
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.
Some things are more than we can understand.
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.
The knowledge of everything knowable is not yet wisdom
What does it mean to be ,' he thought, 'except to be known?
That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.
No idea with who has no idea
The body of knowledge keeps increasing at incredible speed, but the literature of nonknowledge grows even faster.
We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.
Let some things remain mysterious.
Knowing yet not knowing is a strange sensation, like being split in two
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?
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.
Today we have discovered the word that could not be said. I
Is Knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know?
One can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known.
Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.
I know what I have given you ... I do not know what you have received.
All I know is that I do not know anything-- Socrates
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.
Some things are beyond human understanding.
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.
Unmentioned, what is can become as though it were not.
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.
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.
Known.
Some.
Call.
Is.
Air.
Am?
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.
I believe that much unseen is also here.
There is something I do not know, the knowing of which could change everything.
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.
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.
The most important measures are both unknown and unknowable.
I am incapable of more knowledge.
[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.
If God is completely beyond our knowing, how can we know that he is unknowable?
Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished.
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.
No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
Something mysterious ... but
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.
The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that.
God stands revealed or remains forever unknown.
I don't even know what I don't even know,-- Ron Mael
We are opaque mysteries to ourselves and one another.
What is there in thee, Man, that can be known?
Dark fluxion, all unfixable by thought,
A phantom dim of past and future wrought,
Vain sister of the worm ...
The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.
Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.
We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.
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.
When the unknown becomes known, we lose something very big: The beauty of mystery!
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.
The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.
Everything that is not me is 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.
No one can see me, no one knows me;
All men are deaf, no ears disclose me
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.
Sometimes we are mysteries to ourselves.
Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.
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.
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.
Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.
Knowledge is limited.
Wonder is not precisely knowing.
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.
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.
For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.
We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
All I know is that I know nothing.-- Socrates
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You see how I live: shadows and silence, leaving things as I find them because I have no reason to disturb them. But there are things that I have known, even though I never wished to know them and cannot give them a name.
The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
Failure is a word unknown to me.
There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Such absolute impenetrability is past comprehension
For all we know, we know nothing.
Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.
Something unfathomable lies behind every thought ... something for which there aren't any words.
There are high places that don't invite us, sharp shapes, glacier-scraped faces, whole ranges whose given names slip off. Any such relation as we try to make refuses to take ... I'm giddy with thinking where thinking can't stick.
No Names
I want to be a mystery to you,
untouchable,
a star all to myself
a galaxy away from your starved fingers.
He who is (ever ready to) speak about it does not know it.
This is ... self-knowled ge-for a man to know what he knows, and what he does not know.
What you can't imagine, you can't discover.
Through the Unknown, we'll find the New
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
It is nearly an insoluble pancake, a conundrum of inscrutable potentialities, a snorter.