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It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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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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Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#music #name #unknowable

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time. ↗

— Eric Schmidt

#believe #everyone #everything #happens #i

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

#asks #because #conceal #does #either

I remember one of my last shows, the Final Jeopardy! clue was something like 'These two boys' names are top 10 boys' names in the U.S., they both end with the same letter, and they're both names of Jesus' apostles.' Now, obviously that's not a knowable fact. ↗

— Ken Jennings

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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

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If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. ↗

— Leo Strauss

#capacity #highest #man #then #theoretical

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them. ↗

— Rudolf Virchow

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