Quotes with unknowable

  • The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

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  • Abraham Robinson 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
    Polish mathematician (1918 - 1974)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Leonard Bernstein Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
    Leonard Bernstein
    American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer and pianist (1918 - 1990)
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  • James Duffecy Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
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  • Carl Sandburg Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Carl Sandburg Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Thornton Wilder Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
    The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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